 | 1884 - 626 pages
...during six days, and then bursts forth on the seventh day, on account of which, as he says, it is called the Sabbatic river, ' that name being taken from the sacred ' seventh day among the Jews.' On the other hand, Pliny t reverses this, and makes the river flow six days and rest on the seventh.... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...its springs fail for six days altogether, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before,...order perpetually and exactly ; whence it is that t ey call it the Sabbatic River, that name being taken from the the sacred seventh day among the Jews."—... | |
 | 1888 - 272 pages
...its springs fail for six days altogether, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before,...order perpetually and exactly ; whence it is that t ey call it the Sabbatic River, that name being taken from the the sacred seventh day among the Jews."—... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1889 - 584 pages
...its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before,...it the Sabbatic river? that name being taken from jhe sacred seventh day among the Jews. • 2. But when the people of Antioch were informed that Titns... | |
 | Henry Berkowitz - 1898 - 94 pages
...its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channels dry, as any one may see; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before,...taken from the sacred seventh day among the Jews." This natural phenomenon, which is not at all strange in physical geography, arises simply from the... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1905 - 874 pages
...its springs fail for six days together and leave its channels dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before,...and as though it had undergone no change at all : it has also been observed to keep this order perpetually and exactly." The intermittent action is readily... | |
 | Benjamin (of Tudela), Marcus Nathan Adler - 1907 - 248 pages
...its springs fail for six days together and leave its channels dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before,...and as though it had undergone no change at all : it has also been observed to keep this order perpetually and exactly." The intermittent action is readily... | |
 | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim - 1993 - 1030 pages
...its channel dry, as any one may see: after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did hefore, and as though it had undergone no change at all: it hath also heen ohserved to keep this order perpetually and exactly: whence it is that they call it the Sahhatic... | |
 | Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, David Samuel Margoliouth - 2004 - 500 pages
...which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as anyone may see; after which days it runs on the seventh day as it did before,...taken from the sacred seventh day among the Jews. 2. But when the people ofAntioch were informed that Titus was approaching, they were so glad at it,... | |
 | M. a. Reverend a. R. Shilleto, Flavius Josephus - 2006 - 277 pages
...which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see. After this it runs on the seventh day as it did before, and as though it had undergone no change at all, and it has been observed to keep this order perpetually and exactly : whence they call it the Sabbatic... | |
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It hath somewhat very peculiar in it ; for when it runs, its current is strong, and has plenty of water ; after which its springs fail for six days together, and leave its channel dry, as any one may see ; after which days it runs on the seventh day as... 
