 | 1911 - 136 pages
...country, nor do we delight in merchandise . . . ; but the cities we dwell in are remote from the sea, and having a fruitful country for our habitation, we take pains in cultivating that only." ' The proverbs connected 1 Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. xp 227. 1 Josephus, Contra Apionem, I. 12. with... | |
 | Louisa Montefiore Rothschild (Lady de) - 1912 - 130 pages
...the Talmud, ' is like unto the myrtle in the desert.' NEARLY nineteen centuries ago Josephus wrote: 1 Our principal care of all is this, to educate our children well.' ' BY the breath from the mouth of school-children the world is sustained.'—RABBI ELEAZER BEN SHAMNA.... | |
 | Paul Edward Kretzmann - 1916 - 106 pages
...knowledge, right in the midst of their own people. Moreover, Josephus writes in a very general way: "Our principal care of all is this, to educate our children well, and we think it to be the most necessary business of our whole life, to observe the laws that have been given us, and to keep... | |
 | Norman Bentwich - 1920 - 398 pages
...having a fruitful country for our habitation, we devote ourselves to its cultivation. Our principal care is this, to educate our children well, and we think it to be the most necessary business of our whole life to observe the laws that have been given us, and to keep/... | |
 | Paul Edward Kretzmann - 1922 - 104 pages
...knowledge, right in the midst of their own people. Moreover, Josephus writes in a very general way: "Our principal care of all is this, to educate our children well, and we think it to be the most necessary business of our whole life, to observe the laws that have been given us, and to keep... | |
 | 1922 - 290 pages
...texts in Old Test. Eg Ex. xiii. 8; Deut. vi. 20. 1 Ag. Apion, II. 18. He says in same work, I. 12: "Our principal care of all is this, to educate our children well." Cf. Philo, Legatio ad Caium, XVI. 3 Besides, Nazareth was one of the gathering places or centers of... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Temple - 1922 - 286 pages
...texts in Old Test. Eg Ex. xiii. 8; Deut. vi. 20. 1 Ag. .Vpimi. II. 18. He says in same work, I. 12: "Our principal care of all is this, to educate our children well." Cf. Philo, Legatio ad Caium, XVI. ' Besides, Nazareth was one of the gathering places or centers of... | |
 | 1906 - 1100 pages
...a town where there was neither teacher nor school. Nearly nineteen centuries ago, Josephus wrote, ' Our principal care of all is this, to educate our children well.' The Law ordains ' that the very beginning of our education shall be directed to sobriety. It also commands... | |
 | Anthony J. Blasi, Paul-André Turcotte, Jean Duhaime - 2002 - 844 pages
...such a mixture with other men as arises from it; but the cities we dwell in are remote from the sea, and having a fruitful country for our habitation, we take pains in cultivating that only. (C. Ap. 1.60) We need to remain attentive to the difficulties in moving from rhetoric to reality. Josephus's... | |
 | Menashe Har-El - 2004 - 388 pages
...maritime country, nor do we delight in merchandise;... but the cities we dwell in are remote from the sea, and having a fruitful country for our habitation, we take pains in cultivating that only. Elsewhere (Wars in, 3) he says: The country of Samaria... is exactly of the same nature as Judea; for... | |
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As for ourselves, therefore, we neither inhabit a maritime country, nor do we delight in merchandise, nor in such a mixture with other men as arises from it; but the cities we dwell in are remote from the sea, and having a fruitful country for our habitation,... 
