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Now I did not think these histories improper for the present discourse , both
because my discourse now is concerning kings , and otherwise also an account
of the advantage hence to be drawn , as well for the confirmation of the immorta .
lity of ...
Now I did not think these histories improper for the present discourse , both
because my discourse now is concerning kings , and otherwise also an account
of the advantage hence to be drawn , as well for the confirmation of the immorta .
lity of ...
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... but he prayed him to let them alone : the other , by way of reply , asked him the
reason of such a preposterous proceeding , in preventing relief from his present
misery : to which he answered , If thou drivest ihese flies away , thou wilt hurt me
...
... but he prayed him to let them alone : the other , by way of reply , asked him the
reason of such a preposterous proceeding , in preventing relief from his present
misery : to which he answered , If thou drivest ihese flies away , thou wilt hurt me
...
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present calamity , as if it were incurable ; for the change of thy sad condition shall
be sudden ; for thou shalt find me to be more thy friend and thy assistant than thy
hopes can promise thee ; for I will either reestablish thee in the king . dom of ...
present calamity , as if it were incurable ; for the change of thy sad condition shall
be sudden ; for thou shalt find me to be more thy friend and thy assistant than thy
hopes can promise thee ; for I will either reestablish thee in the king . dom of ...
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... 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 present , I here
conclude the ...
... 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 present , I here
conclude the ...
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The present dread you are under seems to me to have seized upon you very
unreasonably . It is true , you might justly be dismayed at that providential
chastisement which hath befallen you ; but to suffer yourselves to be equally ter
rified at the ...
The present dread you are under seems to me to have seized upon you very
unreasonably . It is true , you might justly be dismayed at that providential
chastisement which hath befallen you ; but to suffer yourselves to be equally ter
rified at the ...
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Page 543 - 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 528 - 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 543 - 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 528 - 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 429 - 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 543 - 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 539 - 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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