 | Charles Staniland Wake - 1878 - 496 pages
...tortured and distorted, burnt and torn to pieces, and went through all kinds of instruments of torture, that they might be forced either to blaspheme their legislator, or to eat what was forbidden them, yet could they not be made to do either of them, no, nor once to flatter their tormentors,... | |
 | Leonard Brown - 1908 - 630 pages
...their mind; and as for death, if it be for their glory, they esteem it better than living always; and indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence...souls they had in their trials, wherein, although the were tortured and distorted, burnt and torn to pieces, and went through all kinds of instruments... | |
 | William Oscar Emil Oesterley, George Herbert Box - 1911 - 530 pages
...follows : — " As for death, if it will come with glory, they esteem it better than immortality ; and indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence...to blaspheme their legislator, or to eat what was forbidden them, yet could they not be made to do either of them, no, nor once to flatter their tormentors... | |
 | Thomas E. Kepner - 1914 - 348 pages
...garments, with a girdle of leather around the waist. The war with the Romans, says Josephus, served to show what great souls they had in their trials, wherein, although they were tortured and distorted, and made to pass through all kinds of torment, in order that they might be induced to plaspheme their... | |
 | Charles Theodore Fritsch - 1972 - 174 pages
...mind. And as for death, if it will be for their glory, they esteem it better than living always; and indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence...to blaspheme their legislator, or to eat what was forbidden them, yet they could not be made to do either of them, no, nor once to flatter their tormentors,... | |
 | Lawrence H. Schiffman - 1998 - 812 pages
...consider it better than immortality. (152) Indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence of what great souls they had in their trials, wherein,...and went through all kinds of instruments of torment so that they might be forced either to blaspheme their legislator or to eat what was forbidden to them,... | |
 | Lawrence H. Schiffman - 2003 - 436 pages
...consider it better than immortality. (152) Indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence of what great souls they had in their trials, wherein,...and went through all kinds of instruments of torment so that they might be forced either to blaspheme their legislator or to eat what was forbidden to them,... | |
 | Daniel T Unterbrink - 2004 - 284 pages
...resolution they show when they undergo pain. (Ant. 18.23,24) Compare this to the description of the Essenes: Our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence what...pieces, and went through all kinds of instruments of torture, that they may be forced either to blaspheme their legislator, or to eat what was forbidden... | |
 | Shalomim Y. Halahawi - 2007 - 468 pages
...mind. And as for death, if it will be for their glory, they esteem it better than living always; and indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence...to blaspheme their legislator, or to eat what was forbidden them, yet could they not be made to do either of them, no, nor once to flatter their tormentors,... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1893 - 416 pages
...they esteem it better than living always; and indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidences what great souls they had in their trials; wherein,...instruments of torment, that they might be forced to blaspheme their legislator or to eat what was forbidden them, yet they could not be made to do either... | |
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And as for death, if it will be for their glory, they esteem it better than living always ; and indeed our war with the Romans gave abundant evidence what great souls they had in their trials, wherein, although they were tortured and distorted, burnt... 
