The Works of Flavius Josephus, the Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, and Celebrated Warrior: To which is Added, Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, &c., &c, Bind 1–2

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Milner and Sowerby, 1864 - 710 sider
 

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Side 27 - 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 another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day. CHAPTER III. CONCERNING
Side 31 - a few there are which have kept their denominations entire : for of the four sons of Ham, time has not at all hurt the name of Chus ; for the Ethiopians, over whom he reigned, are even at this day, both by themselves and by all men in Asia, called Chusites. The memory also of the
Side 354 - farther vastly high elevation of the cloister stood upon that height, insomuch that if any one looked down from the top of the battlements, or down both those altitudes, he would be giddy, while his sight could not reach to such an immense depth. This cloister had pillars that stood in four rows one
Side 27 - their actions a double degree of wickedness ; whereby they made God to be their enemy ; 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
Side 291 - are ourselves the causes of what is good, and receive what is evil from our own folly. However, I have given a more exact account of these opinions in the second hook of the Jewish War. 10. But now the generals of Demetrius being willing to recover the defeat they had had, gathered
Side 232 - Cyrus the King :—Since God Almighty hath appointed me to be king of the habitable earth, I believe that he is that God which the nation of the Israelites worship ; for indeed he foretold my name by the prophets, and that I should build him a house at Jerusalem, in the country of Judea.
Side 261 - also erected a strong castle, and built it entirely of white stone to the very roof, and had animals of a prodigious magnitude engraven upon it. He also drew around it a great and deep canal of water. He also made caves of many furlongs in length, by hollowing a rock that
Side 232 - book which Isaiah left behind him of his prophecies ; for this prophet said that God had spoken thus to him in a secret vision :—" My will is, that Cyrus, whom I have appointed to be king over many and great nations, send back my people to their own land, and build my temple.
Side 25 - through Egypt, and denotes what arises from the east, which the Greeks call Nile. 4. God therefore commanded that Adam and his wife should eat of all the rest of the plants, but to abstain from the tree of knowledge ; and foretold to them, that, if they touched it, it would prove their
Side 261 - and run the hazard of being caught by them. Moreover, he built courts of greater magnitude than ordinary, which he adorned with vastly large gardens. And when he had brought the place to this state, he named it Tyre. This place is between Arabia and Judea, beyond Jordan, not far from the country of

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