| M. a. Reverend a. R. Shilleto, Flavius Josephus - 2006 - 277 pages
...however impossible to narrate in detail every instance of these men's lawlessness. I shall therefore say briefly, that neither did any other city ever suffer...ever breed a. generation more fruitful in wickedness from the beginning of the world ; and at last they disparaged the Hebrew nation, that they might appear... | |
| Flavius Josephus - 1822 - 474 pages
...barbarity. 5. It is therefore impossible to go distinctly over every instance of these men's imquity. l shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly...into contempt, that they might themsel-ves appear comparatively less impious with regard to strangers. They confessed what was true, that they were the... | |
| Robert L. Ottley - 1932 - 368 pages
...memorable sentence of Josephus. "I shall speak my mind here at once briefly: — That neither did any city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever...than this was, from 'the beginning of the world'." The fall of Jerusalem was not the last act in ' the Hebrew tragedy2.' A complete history of Judaism... | |
| Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1896 - 124 pages
...deserved its overthrow by producing a generation of men who were the causes of its misfortunes ' ' ; and that ' ' neither did any other city ever suffer such...generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was since the beginning of the world. ' ' The Jerusalem of to-day is described as follows by a recent handbook... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 512 pages
...deserved its overthrow by producing a generation of men who were the causes of its misfortunes ;" and that " neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever treed a generation more fruitful in wiclcedness than this was, since the beginning oj the world." CHAPTER... | |
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