The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus, Volume 2J. Grigg, 1825 |
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... ready to carry off the kingdom imine- diately , and appears to be the most bloody butcher to him of them all ? For thou art sensible , that parricide is a general injury both to nature and to common life ; and that the intention of ...
... ready to carry off the kingdom imine- diately , and appears to be the most bloody butcher to him of them all ? For thou art sensible , that parricide is a general injury both to nature and to common life ; and that the intention of ...
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... ready to send his son to Rome to Cæsar ; there to give an account of these his wicked contrivances . But he soon became afraid , lest he might there , by the assistance of his friends , escape the danger he was in so he kept him bound ...
... ready to send his son to Rome to Cæsar ; there to give an account of these his wicked contrivances . But he soon became afraid , lest he might there , by the assistance of his friends , escape the danger he was in so he kept him bound ...
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... ready to oppress them ; and when the Jews petitioned him again , he gave a signal to the soldiers to encompass them round , and threatened that their pun ishment should be no less than immediate death , unless they would leave off dis ...
... ready to oppress them ; and when the Jews petitioned him again , he gave a signal to the soldiers to encompass them round , and threatened that their pun ishment should be no less than immediate death , unless they would leave off dis ...
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... ready for her by the general of Aretas's army ; and by that means she soon came into Arabia , under the conduct of several generals , who carried her from one to ano- ther successively ; and she soon came to her father , and told him of ...
... ready for her by the general of Aretas's army ; and by that means she soon came into Arabia , under the conduct of several generals , who carried her from one to ano- ther successively ; and she soon came to her father , and told him of ...
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... ready . So he went out , and found Caius before the door , for Tiberius was not yet come , but staid waiting for his breakfast ; for Euodus knew nothing of what his lord intended ; so he said to Caius , " Thy father calls thee , and ...
... ready . So he went out , and found Caius before the door , for Tiberius was not yet come , but staid waiting for his breakfast ; for Euodus knew nothing of what his lord intended ; so he said to Caius , " Thy father calls thee , and ...
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Page 545 - 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 40 - 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 530 - 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 545 - 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 530 - 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 431 - 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 545 - 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 249 - 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 41 - 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 541 - 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.