...27) omits it. See Knowling on Jas. Iv. 4. more subtle. A little later Josephus says that " no age did ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world " (BJ vx 5, xiii. 6 ; VH. viii. 1). There is no doubt that ver. 40 is part of the original text of...

...by such thunder as the country of Sodom perished by.87 The description is absolute, eschatological: Neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries,...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world.88 Thus even the Romanized Josephus who hoped for a civil surrender sounds in his pain the apocalyptic...

...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...

...beginning of the world, if they be compared to these of the Jews, are not so considerable as they were. Neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries,...wickedness than this was, from the beginning of the world. . . . The multitude (1,100,000 slain and 97,000 taken captive) of those that perished exceeded all...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...in 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...was, from the beginning of the world. Finally, they treated the Hebrew nation with contempt, that they might themselves appear comparatively less impious...

...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...

...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*'...