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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... showed the weakness of the evidence obtained by torture , which was commonly false because the distress men are in under such tortures naturally obliges them to say many things in order to please those that govern them . He also offered ...
... showed the weakness of the evidence obtained by torture , which was commonly false because the distress men are in under such tortures naturally obliges them to say many things in order to please those that govern them . He also offered ...
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... showed against thy brethren ; on which account thou didst rejoice , as having done a most famous exploit ; nor was that behaviour unworthy of thee . But if thy intentions were otherwise , thou art worse than they ; while thou didst ...
... showed against thy brethren ; on which account thou didst rejoice , as having done a most famous exploit ; nor was that behaviour unworthy of thee . But if thy intentions were otherwise , thou art worse than they ; while thou didst ...
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... showed to him ; and returned them thanks that they did not remember the injuries his father had done them , to his disadvantage ; and promised them , he would endeavour not to be behindhand with them in rewarding their alacrity in his ...
... showed to him ; and returned them thanks that they did not remember the injuries his father had done them , to his disadvantage ; and promised them , he would endeavour not to be behindhand with them in rewarding their alacrity in his ...
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... showed , yet hath he given a sufficient specimen what a king he is likely to be , when he hath [ in effect ] deprived Cæsar of that power of disposing of the kingdom , which he justly hath , and hath not abstained from making a terrible ...
... showed , yet hath he given a sufficient specimen what a king he is likely to be , when he hath [ in effect ] deprived Cæsar of that power of disposing of the kingdom , which he justly hath , and hath not abstained from making a terrible ...
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... showed so much prudence as to submit all to Cæsar's determination . 7. Now when Nicolaus had laid these things before Cæsar , he ended his plea ; whereupon Cæsar was so obliging to Archelaus , that he raised him up when he had cast ...
... showed so much prudence as to submit all to Cæsar's determination . 7. Now when Nicolaus had laid these things before Cæsar , he ended his plea ; whereupon Cæsar was so obliging to Archelaus , that he raised him up when he had cast ...
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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.