 | Flavius Josephus - 1822 - 474 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,...taken from the sacred seventh day among the Jews. 2. But when the people of Antioch were informed that Titus was approaching, they were so glad at it... | |
 | 1846 - 488 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 and...this order perpetually and exactly — whence it is, they call it the Sabbatic River — that name being taken from the sacred seventh day of the Jews."... | |
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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... 
