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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... thought it best to deliver up the city to Pompey ; but Aristobulus's party exhorted them to shut the gates , because he was kept in prison . Now these prevented the others , and seized upon the tem- ple , and cut off the bridge which ...
... thought it best to deliver up the city to Pompey ; but Aristobulus's party exhorted them to shut the gates , because he was kept in prison . Now these prevented the others , and seized upon the tem- ple , and cut off the bridge which ...
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... thought good , he would dismiss those Jews who were Roman citizens , and were wont to observe the rites of the Jewish religion , on account of the superstition . they were under . Accordingly he did dismiss them . This was done before ...
... thought good , he would dismiss those Jews who were Roman citizens , and were wont to observe the rites of the Jewish religion , on account of the superstition . they were under . Accordingly he did dismiss them . This was done before ...
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... thought he should so much tire his readers if he had attempted it , which he thought a sufficient apology for his omit- ting the rest of them ; yet do those by him produced afford such a strong confirmation to his history , and give ...
... thought he should so much tire his readers if he had attempted it , which he thought a sufficient apology for his omit- ting the rest of them ; yet do those by him produced afford such a strong confirmation to his history , and give ...
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... thought it but just to require punishment for him , and to take vengeance on the man that had murdered him . And as the war was drawn out into a great length , Marcus came from Rome to take Sextus's government upon him ; but Cæsar was ...
... thought it but just to require punishment for him , and to take vengeance on the man that had murdered him . And as the war was drawn out into a great length , Marcus came from Rome to take Sextus's government upon him ; but Cæsar was ...
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... thought of any such thing . So Antipater , perceiving the distress that Malichus was in , was reconciled to him , and made an agreement with him this was when Marcus was president of Syria ; who , yet perceiving that this Malichus was ...
... thought of any such thing . So Antipater , perceiving the distress that Malichus was in , was reconciled to him , and made an agreement with him this was when Marcus was president of Syria ; who , yet perceiving that this Malichus was ...
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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...