The Works of Flavius Josephus ...: To which are Added, Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, Etc. with an Index to the Whole, Volume 1J. Richardson and Company, 1822 |
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... reasons for writing history , I must profess the two last were my own reasons also : for since I was myself interested in that war which we Jews had with the Romans , and knew myself its particular actions , and what conclusion it had ...
... reasons for writing history , I must profess the two last were my own reasons also : for since I was myself interested in that war which we Jews had with the Romans , and knew myself its particular actions , and what conclusion it had ...
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... reasons of every thing , may find here a very curious philosophical theory , which I now indeed shall wave the explication of ; but if God afford me time for it * , I will set about writing it after I have finished the present work . I ...
... reasons of every thing , may find here a very curious philosophical theory , which I now indeed shall wave the explication of ; but if God afford me time for it * , I will set about writing it after I have finished the present work . I ...
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... reasons for all things in a treatise by itself , I shall put off its exposition till that time . After this , on the second day , he placed the heaven over the whole world , and separated it from the other parts , and he determined it ...
... reasons for all things in a treatise by itself , I shall put off its exposition till that time . After this , on the second day , he placed the heaven over the whole world , and separated it from the other parts , and he determined it ...
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... reason why God accepted the sacrifice of Abel , and rejected that of Cain ; as also why Cain slew Abel , on account of that his acceptance with God , is much better than this of Josephus . I mean , be- cause Cain was of the evil one ...
... reason why God accepted the sacrifice of Abel , and rejected that of Cain ; as also why Cain slew Abel , on account of that his acceptance with God , is much better than this of Josephus . I mean , be- cause Cain was of the evil one ...
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... reason why there were no greater number preserved , since they had no place to fly to . When the rain ceased , the water did but just begin * Josephus here takes notice , that these ancient genealogies were first set down by those that ...
... reason why there were no greater number preserved , since they had no place to fly to . When the rain ceased , the water did but just begin * Josephus here takes notice , that these ancient genealogies were first set down by those that ...
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Page 293 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 14 - ... might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;* the one of brick, the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind ; and also inform them that there was...
Page 375 - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Page 228 - And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation ; and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Page 394 - He put a ring that had a root of one of those sorts mentioned by Solomon to the nostrils of the demoniac, after which he drew out the demon through his nostrils, and when the man fell down immediately, he adjured him to return into him no more, making still mention of Solomon, and reciting the incantations which he composed...
Page 394 - God also enabled him to learn that skill which expels demons, which is a science useful and sanative to men. He composed such incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons so that they never return, (46) and this method of cure is of great force unto this day...
Page 393 - Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl.
Page 359 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 394 - If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand ? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. 19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out ? therefore shall they be your judges.
Page 137 - I mean, that were in the nature of buttons on the high priest's shoulders. And for the twelve stones, whether we understand by them the months, or whether we understand the like number of the signs of that circle which the Greeks call the Zodiac, we shall not be mistaken in their meaning.