 | Flavius Josephus - 2006 - 932 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...these opinions in the second book of the Jewish War. (174) But now the generals of Demetrius being willing to recover the defeat they had had, gathered... | |
 | 1934 - 244 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, And. x1n. v. 9, ยงยง 172 sq.}. the Sadducees as we know them in history. Whether it was... | |
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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,... 
