The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, Volume 1I. Thomas, 1794 - Jews |
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... command to Abraham to offer up his Son for a Sacrifice . igin of the JEWISH NATION , and of the Particulars of the laft Jewish War . With a TABLE of the Jewish Coins , Weights , and Measures . IN SIX VOLUMES . VOL . I. BY WILLIAM ...
... command to Abraham to offer up his Son for a Sacrifice . igin of the JEWISH NATION , and of the Particulars of the laft Jewish War . With a TABLE of the Jewish Coins , Weights , and Measures . IN SIX VOLUMES . VOL . I. BY WILLIAM ...
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... command- ed the Jews to exercife virtue , both as to righteoufnefs towards one another , and piety towards God , and fo to come to baptifm , for that by this means the washing [ with water ] would appear acceptable to him , when they ...
... command- ed the Jews to exercife virtue , both as to righteoufnefs towards one another , and piety towards God , and fo to come to baptifm , for that by this means the washing [ with water ] would appear acceptable to him , when they ...
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... Command to ABRAHAM to offer up ISAAC his Son for a Sacrifice . SINCE this command of God to A- braham * has of late been greatly mistaken by fome , who venture to reafon about very ancient facts , from very modern notions , and this ...
... Command to ABRAHAM to offer up ISAAC his Son for a Sacrifice . SINCE this command of God to A- braham * has of late been greatly mistaken by fome , who venture to reafon about very ancient facts , from very modern notions , and this ...
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... command , I say , is now at laft in the eighteenth cen- tury , become a stone of ftumbling , and a rock of offence among us , and that sometimes to perfons of otherwise good fenfe , and of a religious difpofition of mind alfo , I fhall ...
... command , I say , is now at laft in the eighteenth cen- tury , become a stone of ftumbling , and a rock of offence among us , and that sometimes to perfons of otherwise good fenfe , and of a religious difpofition of mind alfo , I fhall ...
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... command for that purpofe , it is full as ftrong against the prefent fyftem of the world , against the conduct of divine providence in general , and against natural re- . ligion , which is founded on the juftice of that provi- dence ...
... command for that purpofe , it is full as ftrong against the prefent fyftem of the world , against the conduct of divine providence in general , and against natural re- . ligion , which is founded on the juftice of that provi- dence ...
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Page 13 - Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ...
Page 37 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 5 - He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day" ("Antiquities of the Jews,
Page 87 - 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 water, they made two pillars...
Page 36 - And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
Page 37 - Because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents...
Page 37 - And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Page 98 - 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.
Page 32 - And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD...
Page 35 - O Grecians, when the Trojan shores you sought, Your passage with a virgin's blood was bought: So must your safe return be bought again, And Grecian blood once more atone the main.