Flavius Josephus quotes

Flavius Josephus was a Jewish historian and military leader in the first century CE. His works provide valuable insight into Jewish history, culture, and the Roman world. He is remembered today for his extensive writings, including "The Jewish War" and "Antiquities of the Jews." Here are 17 of his quotes:

And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended. (Flavius Josephus)

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

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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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Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.

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

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

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

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

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

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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. (Flavius Josephus)

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

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The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies.

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When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave every one his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon.

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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.

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s:The War of the Jews, De Bello Judaico, which he says was a translation of an earlier version written in Chaldaic Hebrew.

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s:Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades, an short essay on the Jewish Pharisees' view of the afterlife.

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Occupation: Jewish Scholar
Born: 37
Died: 100
Quotes count: 17
Wikipedia: Flavius Josephus

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