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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... showed himself superior in valour to all the rest of that army : for these reasons I will , that Hyrcanus , the son of Alexander , and his children , be ethnarchs of the Jews , and have the high - priesthood of the Jews forever , accord ...
... showed himself superior in valour to all the rest of that army : for these reasons I will , that Hyrcanus , the son of Alexander , and his children , be ethnarchs of the Jews , and have the high - priesthood of the Jews forever , accord ...
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... showed the same in those we have produced . And thus have we sufficiently explained that friendship and confederacy we at those times had with the Romans . - * - ** -- CHAP . XI . How * Marcus succeeded Sextus when he had been slain by ...
... showed the same in those we have produced . And thus have we sufficiently explained that friendship and confederacy we at those times had with the Romans . - * - ** -- CHAP . XI . How * Marcus succeeded Sextus when he had been slain by ...
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... showed him , as also to gra- tify Antony , who was very zealous for Herod . So a se- nate was convocated ; and Messala first , and then Atrati- nus introduced Herod into it , and enlarged upon the benefits they had received from his ...
... showed him , as also to gra- tify Antony , who was very zealous for Herod . So a se- nate was convocated ; and Messala first , and then Atrati- nus introduced Herod into it , and enlarged upon the benefits they had received from his ...
Page 68
... showed what he himself meant . But when Mache- rus was sensible that Herod had given him good advice , and that he had made a mistake himself , in not hearkening to that advice , he retired to the city Emmaus ; and what Jews he met with ...
... showed what he himself meant . But when Mache- rus was sensible that Herod had given him good advice , and that he had made a mistake himself , in not hearkening to that advice , he retired to the city Emmaus ; and what Jews he met with ...
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... showed by him to her son , and that she would hereafter be entirely obedient : and she desired him to excuse her , if the nobility of her family , and that freedom of acting which she thought that allowed her , had made her act too ...
... showed by him to her son , and that she would hereafter be entirely obedient : and she desired him to excuse her , if the nobility of her family , and that freedom of acting which she thought that allowed her , had made her act too ...
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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...