 | Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 326 pages
...first occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine, as destroyed...was disposed to contemn that nation, entreated the high-priests, if the thing were possible, to take the number of their whole multitude. So these high-priests,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1824 - 596 pages
...first occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a pestilential destruction upon them; and soon afterward such a famine as destroyed...desirous of informing Nero of the flower of the city, \vho otherwise was disposed to contemn that nation, entreated the high-priests, if the thing were possible,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pages
...that there came a pest:lential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine, as destroven them more suddenly. And that this city could contain so many people in it, ii manifest by that number of them which was taken under Cestius, who being desirous of informing Nero... | |
 | Ephraim Currier - 1841 - 200 pages
...occasioned so Treat a straightness among them, that there came such a pestilential destruction upon them and soon afterward such a famine, as destroyed them more suddenly.' This was the time so often foretold by Moses and the prophets, when the wicked should be destroyed... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1856 - 604 pages
...first occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine, as destroyed...that this city could contain so many people in it, U manifest by that number of them which was taken under Cestius, who being de. •' '.•' * '••sirous... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1869 - 612 pages
...first occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine, as destroyed...manifest by that number of them which was taken under Ccstius, who being desirous of informing Nero of the flower of the city, who otherwise was disposed... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1875 - 606 pages
...a straitness among them, that there came a pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterwards such a famine as destroyed them more suddenly. And...Cestius, who being desirous of informing Nero of the power of the city, who otherwise was disposed to contemn that nation, entreated the high priests, if... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1886 - 514 pages
...stating that the total number who perished in the siege was 1,100,000, he proceeds : — And that the city could contain so many people in it is manifest by that number of them which was taken by Cestius, who, being desirous of informing Nero of the power of the city, who otherwise was disposed... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1889 - 584 pages
...contain so many people in it, is manifest by that number of them which was taken under Cestius,'who being desirous of informing Nero of the flower of...was disposed to contemn that nation, entreated the high-priests, if the thing were possible, to take the number of their whole multitude. So these high-priests,... | |
 | 1892 - 480 pages
...got through the week in the tune. I give in a note an extract from Josephus,1 with a calculation 1 " That this city could contain so many people in it...thing were possible, to take the number of their whole multi CHAP. XIV.] WHEN THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER. 335 when they || killed the passover, his disciples... | |
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Jerusalem], but not belonging to the city itself; for they were come up from all the country to the feast of unleavened bread, and were on a sudden shut up by an army, which at the very first occasioned so great a straitness among them that there came... 
