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they should incur any danger , which might bring them to their deaths , the virtue
of the action now proposed to them ... thus to come at it by the performance of
brave actions , which bring us into danger of it ; and at the same time , to leave
that ...
they should incur any danger , which might bring them to their deaths , the virtue
of the action now proposed to them ... thus to come at it by the performance of
brave actions , which bring us into danger of it ; and at the same time , to leave
that ...
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... and hast been married to Arche . laus , thy husband , and my brother . However
, I will not forget thy former kind affection for me , but will set thee free from every
such reproachful action , and cause thee to be mine again , as thou once wast .
... and hast been married to Arche . laus , thy husband , and my brother . However
, I will not forget thy former kind affection for me , but will set thee free from every
such reproachful action , and cause thee to be mine again , as thou once wast .
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And this is the account of the actions of my whole life : and let others judge of my
character by them as they please . But to thee , O Epaphroditus , * thou most
excellent of men , do I dedicate all this treatise of our Antiquities , and so for the ...
And this is the account of the actions of my whole life : and let others judge of my
character by them as they please . But to thee , O Epaphroditus , * thou most
excellent of men , do I dedicate all this treatise of our Antiquities , and so for the ...
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For they have a mind to demonstrate the greatness of the Romans , while they
still diminish and lessen thc actions of the Jews ; as not discerning how it cannot
be that those must appear to be great , who have only conquered those that were
...
For they have a mind to demonstrate the greatness of the Romans , while they
still diminish and lessen thc actions of the Jews ; as not discerning how it cannot
be that those must appear to be great , who have only conquered those that were
...
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How also Vespasian took Gadara ; and what Actions were per . formed by
Placidus . $ 1 . By this time John was beginning to tyrannize , and thought it
beneath hira to accept of barely the same honours that others had ; and joining to
himself by ...
How also Vespasian took Gadara ; and what Actions were per . formed by
Placidus . $ 1 . By this time John was beginning to tyrannize , and thought it
beneath hira to accept of barely the same honours that others had ; and joining to
himself by ...
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Page 541 - And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 38 - They also believe, that souls have an immortal vigour in them, and that under the earth there will be rewards or punishments, according as they have lived virtuously or viciously in this life ; and the latter are to be detained in an everlasting prison, but that the former shall have power to revive and live again...
Page 526 - Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third •day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him ; and the ;tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
Page 541 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Page 526 - Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ...
Page 427 - Besides these, a few days after that feast, on the one and twentieth day of the month Artemisius, [Jyar,] a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared: I suppose the account of it would seem to be a fable, were it not related by those that saw it, and were not the events that followed it of so considerable a nature as to deserve such signals; for, before sun-setting, chariots and troops of soldiers in their armour were seen running about among the clouds, and surrounding of cities.
Page 541 - Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents ; they have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind...
Page 247 - These men are despisers of riches, and so very communicative as raises our admiration. Nor is there any one to be found among them who hath more than another; for it is a law among them, that those who come to them must let what they have be common to the whole order...
Page 39 - It also deserves our admiration, how much they exceed all other men that addict themselves to virtue, and this in righteousness; and indeed to such a degree, that as it hath never appeared among any other men, neither Greeks nor barbarians, no, not for a little time, so hath it endured a long while among them.
Page 537 - Deliver me from all my transgressions : make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
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| Title | The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus, Volume 2 The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus, Flavius Josephus |
| Author | Flavius Josephus |
| Publisher | J. Grigg, 1825 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2007 |
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