The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measuresFor Thomas and Andrews, Boston, and Isaiah Thomas, Jun., Worcester, 1809 |
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Page 5
... Moses , our legislator , I cannot avoid saying somewhat concern- ing him before hand , though I shall do it briefly ; I mean , because otherwise those that read my books may wonder how it comes to pass , that my discourse , which ...
... Moses , our legislator , I cannot avoid saying somewhat concern- ing him before hand , though I shall do it briefly ; I mean , because otherwise those that read my books may wonder how it comes to pass , that my discourse , which ...
Page 6
... Moses says of the creation of the world , which I find described in the sacred books . As to this intended work of Josephus's concerning the reasons of many of the Jewish laws and what philosophical or allegorical sense they would bear ...
... Moses says of the creation of the world , which I find described in the sacred books . As to this intended work of Josephus's concerning the reasons of many of the Jewish laws and what philosophical or allegorical sense they would bear ...
Page 88
... Moses had been flain , there was no one , either akin or adopted , that had any oracle on his fide , for pretending to the crown of Egypt , and likely to be of greater advantage to them , they abftained from killing him . What Jofephus ...
... Moses had been flain , there was no one , either akin or adopted , that had any oracle on his fide , for pretending to the crown of Egypt , and likely to be of greater advantage to them , they abftained from killing him . What Jofephus ...
Page 89
... MOSES ing manner , and came to the age JOSES therefore , when he was born , and brought of maturity , made his virtue maniteft to the Egyptians ; and fhewed that he was born for the bringing them down , and raifing the Ifraelites . And ...
... MOSES ing manner , and came to the age JOSES therefore , when he was born , and brought of maturity , made his virtue maniteft to the Egyptians ; and fhewed that he was born for the bringing them down , and raifing the Ifraelites . And ...
Page 119
... Moses . Whereupon he called together the people to a congregation , in order to their hearing what God would fay to them . And when they were gathered together , he stood on an eminence whence they might all hear him , and faid , " God ...
... Moses . Whereupon he called together the people to a congregation , in order to their hearing what God would fay to them . And when they were gathered together , he stood on an eminence whence they might all hear him , and faid , " God ...
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Abfalom Abimelech Accordingly affiftance againſt Ahab alfo alſo altar Amaziah Ammonites Antiq army Babylon becauſe befides Benhadad brought caft called Canaan Canaanites caufe CHAP commanded cubits David death defired deftroyed deftruction Egypt Egyptians enemies facrifices faid fame father feaft feems felf fend fent fervants feven fhall fhewed fhould fight filver fince firft flain flew fome foon foretold ftill ftones fuch fuffer fuppofe gave hath Hebrews himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred Ifrael Ifraelites Jeroboam Jerufalem Jews Joab Jofephus Jofephus's king king's kingdom land laws Mofes moft moſt multitude obferved occafion paffed perfon perfuaded Philiftines pleaſed pofterity prefent preferve priests promifed prophet punishment reafon refolved reft reign Samaria Saul Solomon Syria tabernacle temple thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thoufand told took tribe tribe of Judah uſe whofe wicked wife worship
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Page 15 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And, that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars...
Page 24 - For of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites.
Page 375 - ... the demon, as he went out of the man, to overturn it, and thereby to let the spectators know that he had left the man...
Page 16 - For many angels" of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.