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Page 62
... Josephus , who wrote his Antiquities , or history of the Jews , about sixty years after the commencement of Christianity , in a passage generally admitted as genuine , makes mention of John under the name of John the Bap- tist ; that he ...
... Josephus , who wrote his Antiquities , or history of the Jews , about sixty years after the commencement of Christianity , in a passage generally admitted as genuine , makes mention of John under the name of John the Bap- tist ; that he ...
Page 63
... Josephus was designed . For , although we should lay aside the au- thority of our own books entirely , yet when Tacitus , who wrote not twenty , perhaps not ten years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was ...
... Josephus was designed . For , although we should lay aside the au- thority of our own books entirely , yet when Tacitus , who wrote not twenty , perhaps not ten years after Josephus , in his account of a period in which Josephus was ...
Page 64
... Josephus , or to obtain a place in his history . Perhaps he did not know how to represent the business , and disposed of his difficulties by passing it over in silence . Eusebius wrote the life of Constantine , yet omits entirely the ...
... Josephus , or to obtain a place in his history . Perhaps he did not know how to represent the business , and disposed of his difficulties by passing it over in silence . Eusebius wrote the life of Constantine , yet omits entirely the ...
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... Josephus , a Jew- ish and contemporary historian . This part of the case is perfectly free from doubt . The only question , which , in my opinion , can be raised upon the subject , is , whether the prophecy was really delivered before ...
... Josephus , a Jew- ish and contemporary historian . This part of the case is perfectly free from doubt . The only question , which , in my opinion , can be raised upon the subject , is , whether the prophecy was really delivered before ...
Page 243
... Josephus , that there were many of these . Some of them , it is probable , might be impostors , who thought that an ad- vantage was to be taken of the state of public opinion . Others , perhaps , were enthusiasts , whose imagination had ...
... Josephus , that there were many of these . Some of them , it is probable , might be impostors , who thought that an ad- vantage was to be taken of the state of public opinion . Others , perhaps , were enthusiasts , whose imagination had ...
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