 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 468 pages
...accurate account of the facts therein related j and honestly corrected the srrors he bad before run into. myself, for the sake of such as live under the government...composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians : * I Joseph, the son of Matthias, by hirth an Hebrew, a priest also, and one who... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 304 pages
...accusations, and sometimes encomiums, but no whefe the accurate truth of the facts ; I have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live Under the...translate those books into the Greek tongue, which 1 formerly composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians:* I, Joseph, the... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pages
...sometimes encomiums but nowhere the accurate truth of the facts ; I have proposed to myself; for toe sake of such as live under the government of the Romans,...composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians :f I Joseph, the son of Matthias, by birth a Hebrew, a priest also, and one who at... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1826 - 712 pages
...accusations, and sometimes encomiums, but no where the accurate truth of the facts ; I have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live under the...tongue, which I formerly composed in the language of our • I have already observed more than once, that this history of the Jewish War was Josephus's first... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1852 - 712 pages
...accusations, and sometimes encomiums, but no where the accurate truth of the facts ; I have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live under the...composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians. f I, Joseph, the eon of Matthias, by birth a Hebrew, a priest also, and one who at... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1856 - 604 pages
...accusations, and sometimes encomiums but nowhere the accurate truth of the facts ; I have proposed to myself; for the sake of such as live under the...composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians :f I Joseph, the son of Matthias, by birth a Hebrew, a priest also, and one who at... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 268 pages
...and is able to interpret their meaning." Again, Preface to the Wars of the Jews : " I have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live under the...composed in the language of our country, and sent to the upper barbarians (namely Jews, Arabians, and Syrians). I, Joseph, the son of Matthias, by birth an... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 546 pages
...and is able to interpret their meaning." Again, Preface to the Wars of the Jews : " I have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live under the government of the Eomans, to translate those books into the Grreek tongue, which I formerly composed in the language... | |
 | Francis Bowen (M.C.P.) - 1869 - 230 pages
...daily spoken at this very time by the fishermen of the Sea of Galilee. ' I (Josephns) have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live under the...tongue, which I formerly composed in the language of our own country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians ' (viz. ' the Parthians, Babylonians, and remotest Arabians,... | |
 | Arthur Hall (of Highbury.) - 1870 - 96 pages
...into Greek, Latin, &c. Josephus says the same: "Wars," preface, § i.,"I have proposed to myself . . to translate those books into the Greek tongue, which...formerly composed in the language of our country." What light this throws upon the question, — thelanyuage of our country. Thanks, good Flavius Josephus!... | |
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I have proposed to myself; for the sake of such as live under the government of the Romans, to translate those books into the Greek tongue, which I formerly composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians... 
