The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, Volume 2Henry G. Bohn, 1852 |
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... four brethren continued the war a long while by such sort of expeditions , and much grieved the Romans ; but did their own nation also VOL . II . D a great deal of mischief . Yet were they afterwards BOOK XVII . - CHAP . X. 33.
... four brethren continued the war a long while by such sort of expeditions , and much grieved the Romans ; but did their own nation also VOL . II . D a great deal of mischief . Yet were they afterwards BOOK XVII . - CHAP . X. 33.
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... sort of moderation set over them . * 3. Now , when the Jews had said this , Nicolaus vindicated the kings from those accusations , and said , " That , as for Herod , since he had never been thus accused all the time of his life , it was ...
... sort of moderation set over them . * 3. Now , when the Jews had said this , Nicolaus vindicated the kings from those accusations , and said , " That , as for Herod , since he had never been thus accused all the time of his life , it was ...
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... sort , who were zealous for it , brought the public to destruction . 2. The Jews had for a great while had three sects of philosophy peculiar to themselves , the sect of the Essens , and the sect of the Sadducees , and the third sort of ...
... sort , who were zealous for it , brought the public to destruction . 2. The Jews had for a great while had three sects of philosophy peculiar to themselves , the sect of the Essens , and the sect of the Sadducees , and the third sort of ...
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... sort of Parthians agreed together , that it was impossible they should be governed without a king , while also it was their constant practice to choose one of the family We may here take notice , as well as in the parallel parts of the ...
... sort of Parthians agreed together , that it was impossible they should be governed without a king , while also it was their constant practice to choose one of the family We may here take notice , as well as in the parallel parts of the ...
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... sort of agony , and took this treatment of him heinously ; as he therefore saw one of Caius ' slaves , whos name was Thaumastus , carrying some water in a vessel , he desired that he would let him drink ; so the servant gave him some ...
... sort of agony , and took this treatment of him heinously ; as he therefore saw one of Caius ' slaves , whos name was Thaumastus , carrying some water in a vessel , he desired that he would let him drink ; so the servant gave him some ...
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Page 48 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem ? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 573 - 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 589 - Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech ; he shall surely be put to death : the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Page 458 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people.
Page 580 - He was the Christ ; and when 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 590 - Abraham, Abraham : and he said, Here am I. 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 590 - 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 591 - Behold the fire and the wood : but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 423 - I shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly, that neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world.
Page 590 - Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.