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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... rest of his life ; for although he was delivered from the fear of his brethren being his rivals as to the government , yet did he find it a very hard thing , and almost impracticable , to come at the kingdom , because the hatred of the ...
... rest of his life ; for although he was delivered from the fear of his brethren being his rivals as to the government , yet did he find it a very hard thing , and almost impracticable , to come at the kingdom , because the hatred of the ...
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... rest ran away . together with the authors of this bold attempt , Judas and Matthias , who thought it an ignominious thing to retire upon his approach , and led them to the king . And when they were come to the king , and he had asked ...
... rest ran away . together with the authors of this bold attempt , Judas and Matthias , who thought it an ignominious thing to retire upon his approach , and led them to the king . And when they were come to the king , and he had asked ...
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... rest who should appear to use the loudest acclamations . So he ascended a high elevation made for him , and took his seat in a throne made of gold , and spake kindly to the multitude , and de- clared , " with what joy he received their ...
... rest who should appear to use the loudest acclamations . So he ascended a high elevation made for him , and took his seat in a throne made of gold , and spake kindly to the multitude , and de- clared , " with what joy he received their ...
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... rest , and were more zealous than the others in making an assault on Sabinus , in order to be avenged of him : so they parted themselves into three bands , and encamped themselves in the places following : some of them seized on the ...
... rest , and were more zealous than the others in making an assault on Sabinus , in order to be avenged of him : so they parted themselves into three bands , and encamped themselves in the places following : some of them seized on the ...
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... rest of them were affrighted at their slaughter , and left their dead behind them , but saved themselves by the means of Gratus , who came with the king's troops that were about him to their assistance . Now these four brethren ...
... rest of them were affrighted at their slaughter , and left their dead behind them , but saved themselves by the means of Gratus , who came with the king's troops that were about him to their assistance . Now these four brethren ...
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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.