| C. Marvin Pate - 1998 - 258 pages
...dead bodies of the people as dogs do, and fill the prisons with those that were sick. (Wars 5.12.4) Neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries,...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world. (Wars 5.10.5) Josephus continues: The madness of the seditious did also increase together with their... | |
| I. Howard Marshall, David Peterson - 1998 - 638 pages
...the leaders and people of Jerusalem prior to the city's capture by the Romans: "... no age ever bred a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world (\ir\ yevedv eJ; ai<5voc, yeyovevai KaKiac, yoviuonepav)'. Again Bell V.566: Jerusalem had brought... | |
| Thomas Ice, Kenneth L. Gentry - 228 pages
...lighter thing to be ruined by the Romans than by themselves" (Wars 4:2:2). Furthermore, Josephus writes, "it is therefore impossible to go distinctly over...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world" (Wars 5:10:5; see also: 7:8:1). Matthew 24:13 says, "But the one who endures to the end, he shall be... | |
| Peter Bluer - 2001 - 476 pages
...therefore impossible to go distinctly over every instance of these men's iniquity [ the seditious ]. I shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly:...miseries, nor did any age ever breed a generation [of Jews] more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world. Book V Chap IV... | |
| Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, David Samuel Margoliouth - 2004 - 500 pages
...what was so communicated to him grieved at this, as at the loss of what was a valuable thing, that he had no share in such barbarity. 5. It is therefore...was, from the beginning of the world. Finally, they treated the Hebrew nation with contempt, that they might themselves appear comparatively less impious... | |
| David Malcolm Bennett - 2004 - 174 pages
...we are still left with a disaster of monumental proportions. It is no wonder that Josephus bewailed, "neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries,...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world." 23 His words are a strange echo of our Lord's. In addition, the Roman historian Tacitus wrote of earthquakes... | |
| Ralph E. Jr. Bass, Ralph Bass - 2004 - 552 pages
...support the charge? Josephus adds these words, "I shall therefore speak my mind here at once hriefly: —That neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever hreed a generation more fruitful in wickedness that this was, from the heginning of the world. "6*'... | |
| Obadiah Frank - 2004 - 286 pages
...the Roman siege of Jerusalem circa 70 AD.12 Josephus even uses language to describe this time such as "nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness that this was, from the beginning of the world"13 much like the descriptive language of Jesus as he... | |
| Michael Barber - 2005 - 326 pages
...evil generation" (Mt. 12:43-45). Likewise, Josephus writes of his own people: "[N]or did any other age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness...than this was, from the beginning of the world."" Therefore, at the end of the thousand years, Satan was let loose to wreak his worst damage. The First... | |
| Irene Belyeu - 2006 - 669 pages
...until now, no, and never will be," (Matt. 24:21, with reference to Daniel 12:1). Josephus reports: That neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries,...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world (Wara5.10.5), 330 Just as the terms 'Israel', 'Jerusalem', 'Jew*, and 'Son', etc. become translated... | |
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