The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, and Celebrated Warrior ; to which are Prefixed, Three Dissertations, Volume 4David Huntington, 1815 |
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... principal scope that authors ought to aim at above all the rest , is to speak accurately , and to speak truly , for the satisfaction of those that are otherwise unacquainted with such transactions , and obliged to believe what these ...
... principal scope that authors ought to aim at above all the rest , is to speak accurately , and to speak truly , for the satisfaction of those that are otherwise unacquainted with such transactions , and obliged to believe what these ...
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... principal Jews who came out of Babylon into Judea ; but that asser- tion of his was to gratify Herod , who was his son , and who , by certain revolutions of fortune , came afterward to be king of the Jews , whose history we shall give ...
... principal Jews who came out of Babylon into Judea ; but that asser- tion of his was to gratify Herod , who was his son , and who , by certain revolutions of fortune , came afterward to be king of the Jews , whose history we shall give ...
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... principal men among the Jews left the coun- try , and fled into Egypt . Now there was one , whose name was Onias , a righteous man he was , and beloved of God , who in a certain drought , had prayed to God to put an end to the intense ...
... principal men among the Jews left the coun- try , and fled into Egypt . Now there was one , whose name was Onias , a righteous man he was , and beloved of God , who in a certain drought , had prayed to God to put an end to the intense ...
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... principal men of the Arabians should come to his assistance ; and on his account it was that all the Syrians assisted him also , as not willing to appear be- hindhand in their alacrity for Cæsar , viz . Jamblicus the ruler , and Ptolemy ...
... principal men of the Arabians should come to his assistance ; and on his account it was that all the Syrians assisted him also , as not willing to appear be- hindhand in their alacrity for Cæsar , viz . Jamblicus the ruler , and Ptolemy ...
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... principal men among the Jews , when * Those who will carefully observe the several occasional num- bers and chronological characters in the life and death of this Herod , and of his children , hereafter noted , will see , that twenty ...
... principal men among the Jews , when * Those who will carefully observe the several occasional num- bers and chronological characters in the life and death of this Herod , and of his children , hereafter noted , will see , that twenty ...
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Page 272 - And thus an end was put to this sedition. " [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 281 - Now some of the Jews thought that the destruction of Herod's army came from God, and that very justly, as a punishment of what he did against John, who was called the Baptist ; for Herod slew him, who was a good man, and commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righteousness towards one another, and piety towards God, and so to come to baptism...
Page 263 - 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 133 - Panium. This is a very fine cave in a mountain, under which there is a great cavity in the earth, and the cavern is abrupt, and prodigiously deep, and full of a still water ; over it hangs a vast mountain; and under the caverns arise the springs of the river Jordan. Herod adorned this place, which was already a very remarkable one, still further by the erection of this temple, which he dedicated to Caesar.
Page 264 - Temple but offer their sacrifices themselves; yet is their course of life better than that of other men, and they entirely addict themselves to husbandry. 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 263 - ... 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: on account of which doctrines they are able greatly to persuade the body of the people...