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Flavius Josephus ( 37 C.E. ~ 100 ), Jewish-Roman historian

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.

With whom there is no place of toil, no burning heat, no piercing cold, nor any briars there . . . this place we call the Bosom of Abraham.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

The family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests.

I once, indeed, thought it best not to set down the names of this family, especially because of their difficult pronunciation, [by the Greeks;] but, upon the whole, I think it necessary to mention those names, that I may disprove such as believe that we came not originally from Mesopotamia, but are Egyptians. Now.

Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).

For that wars are then managed the best when the warriors preserve a good conscience.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. But when the earth did not come into sight, but was covered with thick darkness, and a wind moved upon its surface, God commanded that there should be light.

Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.

Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else.

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Truth is a thing that is immortal and eternal.

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.

The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again.

But why dwell on the commonplace rubbish which the starving were driven to feed upon.

Gaping with hunger, like mad dogs, lawless gangs went staggering and reeling through the streets.

Need drove the starving to gnaw at anything. Refuse which even animals would reject was collected and turned into food.

When they joined battle, Herod's army was completely destroyed by the treachery of some fugitives.

At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus.

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Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies.

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

Accordingly Moses says, That in just six days the world, and all that is therein, was made. And that the seventh day was a rest, and a release from the labor of such operations; whence it is that we Celebrate a rest from our labors on that day, and call it the Sabbath, which word denotes rest in the Hebrew tongue.
Those who undertake to write histories, do not, I perceive, take that trouble on one and the same account, but for many reasons, and those such as are very different one from another.
At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that he had appeared to them after his crucifixion and that he was alive; accordingly, he was perhaps the Messiah concerning whom the prophets have recounted wonders.
They had a man who was six cubits tall, and had on each of his feet and hands one more toe and finger than men naturally have. Now the person who was sent against them by David out of his army was Jonathan, the son of Shimea, who fought this man in a single combat, and slew him; and as he was the person who gave the turn to the battle, he gained the greatest reputation for courage therein.
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.
The cities were strong with walls, and their firm fortifications round about them. They told them also, that they found at Hebron the posterity of the giants. Accordingly these spies, who had seen the land of Canaan, when they perceived that all these difficulties were greater there than they had met with since they came out of Egypt, they were aftrighted at them themselves, and endeavored to affright the multitude also.

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