The Works of Flavius Josephus: The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior; With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, ... &C., And Explanatory Notes and Observations - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from The Works of Flavius Josephus: The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior; With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, &C., And Explanatory Notes and Observations

The Syrians. But what was done by the inhabi tants of Scythopolis was the most impious and highly criminal of all t for, when the Jews, their enemies, came a n them from without, they forced the J ews t at were among them to bear arms against their own countrymen, which it is unlawful for us to do t and when h their assist ance the had jowed battle with t ose that at tacked t em, and had beaten them, utter that victory they forgot the assurances the? Had given these their fellow-citizens and conf crates, and slew them all, being in number many ten thon sands The rite miseries wereunder no by those Jews that were the inhabitants 0 Da mascus. But we have given a more accurate account of these things in the books of the Jew ish war. I only mention them now, because I would demonstrate to my readers, that the J ews' war with the Romans was not voluntary, but that, for the main, they were forced by necessity to enter into it.

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