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“when they determine that all things are done by fate, they do not take away the freedom from men of acting as they think fit;” Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews · insight
Christian refutes the “stalking-horse” logic behind using religion for gain, citing biblical examples of heathens, hypocrites, Judas, and Simon, and the company falls silent before moving on past a perilous silver mine.
daughter and their cattle were that which they sought to obtain, and their religion the stalking-horse they made use of to come at them. Read the whole story. [Gen. 34:20-23] {262} 2. The hypocritical Pharisees were also of this religion; long prayers were their pretence, but to get widows' houses was their intent; and greater damnation was from God their judgment. [Luke 20:46-47] {263} 3. Judas the devil was also …
Josephus describes his upbringing in Jerusalem, his early learning, how leaders consulted him on Jewish law, and his adolescent decision to study the three major Jewish sects.
the genealogy of my family as I have found it described [2] in the public records, and so bid adieu to those who calumniate me [as of a lower original]. 2. Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of his nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have. I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Ma…
A commentary contrasts the end of John Hyrcanus’s priestly theocracy with the rise of Asamonean kings and then Herod, using Strabo’s account that Alexander became king instead of priest.
relating to Judea, that can be compared to these accounts of Josephus, though when we do meet with authentic fragments of such original records, they almost always confirm his history.] 34 (return) [ This city, or island, Cos, is not that remote island in the Aegean Sea, famous for the birth of the great Hippocrates, but a city or island of the same name adjoining to Egypt, mentioned both by Stephanus and Ptolemy, a…
Josephus explains Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes as Jewish philosophical sects, describing beliefs about fate, free will, immortality of the soul, and rewards or punishments after death.
which I will discourse a little, and this the rather because the infection which spread thence among the younger sort, who were zealous for it, brought the public to destruction. 2. The Jews had for a great while had three sects of philosophy peculiar to themselves; the sect of the Essens, and the sect of the Sadducees, and the third sort of opinions was that of those called Pharisees; of which sects, although I hav…
Coleridge explains that differences between Old and New Testament moral emphases reflect language and translation (Hebrew vs Greek), then corrects Jewish sect misconceptions by describing Pharisees as rigid legalists and Sadducees as few, wealthy, and anti–future-state.
Old Testament from the Hebrew Original, in the New Testament from the freer Greek translation. The text, *I give you a new commandment*, has no connection with the present subject. 2 There is a current mistake on this point likewise, though this article of the Jewish Belief is not only asserted by St. Paul, but is elsewhere spoken of as common to the Twelve Tribes. The mistake consists in supposing the Pharisees to …