 | Flavius Josephus - 1856 - 604 pages
...one respect only , and he that did not partake of what was so communicated to him grieved at this, as at the loss of what was a valuable thing, that...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world. Finulls-, they brought the Hebrew nation into contempt, that they might themselves appear comparatively... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1866 - 686 pages
...swallowed them up, a flood have drowned them, or fire from heaven have consumed them. " For," says he, " neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries,...wickedness than this was from the beginning of the world." There were indeed better disposed persons, especially among the lower classes. The success of the Baptist... | |
 | Joseph Converse Heywood - 1867 - 246 pages
...speak my mind here at once briefly: That neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world." FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. SALOME. A Chamber in Jerusalem. CHORUS OF CHRISTIANS. WHAT should it mean? The Dweller.... | |
 | 1870 - 158 pages
...shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly : — That neither did &ny other city ever surfer such miseries, nor did any age ever breed a generation...that they were the slaves, the scum, and the spurious arid abortive offspring of our nation; while they overthrew the city themselves, and forced the Romans,... | |
 | George Whitefield Clark - 1870 - 446 pages
...literally fulfilled. The language of Josephus is noteworthy: "I . shall, therefore, speak my mind here nt once briefly, that neither did any other city ever...breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than was this, from the beginning of the world." And again: "The multitude of those that therein perished... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1874 - 540 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...did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in unckedness than this was, since the beginning of theworld."^ 1 Every detail in these two paragraphs... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1875 - 542 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 1 Every deiail in these two paragraphs is taken from Jos. BJ v. 6 — vi. 10,... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1875 - 606 pages
...iniquity. I shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly:—That neither did any other <,ity crer suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever breed a...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world." The historian, having thus commented on the events of the period—the applicability of which to the... | |
 | Eleanor Plumptre - 1877 - 386 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." — Farrarts " Life of Christ." "Every man's harvest hereafter shall... | |
 | William Patton - 1876 - 248 pages
...temple, during this siege by the Romans ! Of the fearful career of these factions Josephus remarks : " Neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this from the beginning of the world. They confessed... | |
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I shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly, that neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world. 
