 | Adolf Hausrath - 1878 - 296 pages
...neither any such thing, nor is human happiness according to its determination, but that everything is in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes...good, and receive what is evil from our own folly." Of Fate, indeed, it is hardly proper to speak in connection with the Pharisees and Essenes. It was... | |
 | Edmond Stapfer - 1885 - 574 pages
...that the events of human affairs are not at its disposal, but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power ; so that we are ourselves the causes...these opinions in the second book of the Jewish War." The passage to which he refers runs as follows : l "As to the two orders first mentioned (the Pharisees... | |
 | William Whiston - 1895 - 840 pages
...that the events of human affairs are not at its disposal, but they supjiose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes...receive what is evil from our own folly. However, J have given a more exact account of these opinions in the second book of the Jewish War. 10. But now... | |
 | 1901 - 860 pages
...that the events of human aflairs are not at its disposal, but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes...Jewish War. 10. But now the generals of Demetrius, be'ng willing to recover die defeat they had had, /athcred a greater army together than they bail before,... | |
 | William Oscar Emil Oesterley, George Herbert Box - 1911 - 530 pages
...that the events of human affairs are not at its disposal, but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes...good, and receive what is evil from our own folly." * Again : " The Sadducees take away fate entirely, and suppose that God is not concerned in our doing... | |
 | John Punnett Peters - 1914 - 530 pages
...that the events of human affairs are not at its disposal, but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes...good, and receive what is evil from our own folly " (Ant. xiii, v, 9).2 With this agree in general the statements about the Sadducees contained in the... | |
 | Arthur Lukyn Williams - 1922 - 248 pages
...that the events of human affairs are not at its disposal, but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes...good, and receive what is evil from our own folly " ( Josephus, Antt. xm, v. 9, §§ 172 sq-). 3 Box, ibid. the Sadducees as we know them in history.... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1999 - 1154 pages
...that the events of human affairs are not at its disposal; but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes...opinions in the second book of the Jewish War. 10. (174) But now the generals of Demetrius being willing to recover the defeat they had had, gathered... | |
 | Anthony J. Tomasino - 2003 - 356 pages
...that the events of human affairs are not at its disposal; but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes...these opinions in the second book of the Jewish War. ' This is the first time Josephus mentions these sects in his account of Jewish history.2 The paragraph... | |
 | Charles H. Talbert - 1994 - 326 pages
...disposal; but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the cause of what is good, and receive what is evil from our own folly" (Antiquities 13.5.9 § 173). (b) The Pharisees' position is verbalized by R. Akiba: "All is foreseen... | |
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And for the Sadducees, they take away fate, and say there is no such thing, and that the events of human affairs are not at its disposal; but they suppose that all our actions are in our own power, so that we are ourselves the causes of what is good,... 
