The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish Historian: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus, Volume 1W. Borradaile, 1823 |
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... pass , that my discourse , which promises an account of laws and historical facts , contains so much of philo- sophy . The reader is therefore to know , that Moses deemed it exceedingly necessary , that he who would conduct his own life ...
... pass , that my discourse , which promises an account of laws and historical facts , contains so much of philo- sophy . The reader is therefore to know , that Moses deemed it exceedingly necessary , that he who would conduct his own life ...
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... pass between both . This rite was practised both by believers and heathens at their solemn leagues : at first , doubtless , with a view to the great sacrifice , who was to purge our sins in his own blood : and the offering of these ...
... pass between both . This rite was practised both by believers and heathens at their solemn leagues : at first , doubtless , with a view to the great sacrifice , who was to purge our sins in his own blood : and the offering of these ...
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... pass through Mesopotamia , in which it is tedious travelling both in winter , for the depth of the clay , and in summer , for want of water ; and besides this , for the robberies there com- mitted , which are not to be avoided by ...
... pass through Mesopotamia , in which it is tedious travelling both in winter , for the depth of the clay , and in summer , for want of water ; and besides this , for the robberies there com- mitted , which are not to be avoided by ...
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... pass accordingly . Do you therefore confirm that marriage , whose espousals have been al- ready made by a divine appearance , and shew the respect you have for Abraham , who has sent me with so much solicitude , in giving your consent ...
... pass accordingly . Do you therefore confirm that marriage , whose espousals have been al- ready made by a divine appearance , and shew the respect you have for Abraham , who has sent me with so much solicitude , in giving your consent ...
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... pass though he were at home with him : that he ought not to condemn them to such manifest destruction , nor deprive them of that plenty of food they might have from Pharoah , by his un- reasonable fear about his son Benjamin , but ought ...
... pass though he were at home with him : that he ought not to condemn them to such manifest destruction , nor deprive them of that plenty of food they might have from Pharoah , by his un- reasonable fear about his son Benjamin , but ought ...
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Page 374 - 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 255 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page 435 - 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 275 - And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies: is not this written in the book of Jasher ? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the LORD fought for Israel.
Page 414 - And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried, and continued fasting, having taken nothing. 34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat ; for this is for your health : for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
Page 22 - God to be their enemy, (73) for many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.
Page 26 - There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Bari», upon which it is reported, that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved ; and that one who was carried in an ark, came on shore upon the top of it ; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses, the legislator of the Jews...
Page 428 - There were two men in one city ; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him...
Page 428 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 21 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And that their inventions 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...