Post-Biblical History of the Jews: From the Close of the Old Testament, about the Year 420 B.C.E., Till the Destruction of the Second Temple in the Year 70 C.E. |
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Post-Biblical History of the Jews: From the Close of the Old Testament ... Morris J. 1798-1868 Raphall No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 118 - The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat : all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do not ye after their works : for they say and do not
Page 473 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people!
Page 144 - Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom : and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee : she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Page 374 - ... rejected, the acknowledged facts would be important enough to be mentioned. But, on the whole, we think Dr. Raphall has acted wisely in declining to tell, as part of his narrative, what it would be difficult to tell so as to satisfy the prejudices of either class of his readers. He observes, that, " during its infancy, Christianity has no claim on the attention of the Jewish historian...
Page 271 - ... siege to Brundusium : all the rage of civil war was thus likely to be again rekindled, when the flames were suppressed by the cautious coldness of the soldiers on either side. From the licence " Plutarch, in Anton. in which they were indulged, and the flatteries CHAP. with which they were courted, the Roman legionaries had discovered the secret of their own importance ; they had learned to reason and to calculate: Octavius had the stronger army ; Antony was the better general ; the secure benefits...
Page 341 - ... Agrippa. We receive a better idea of the largeness of Herod's views, however, by his building the town and forming the harbor at what he named Csesarea. The site had formerly been marked by a castle called Strato's tower, on the coast between Dora and Joppa, Here he made the most convenient and safest port to be found on all the coast of Phoenicia and Palestine, by running out a vast semicircular mole or breakwater, of great depth and extent, into the sea, so as to form a spacious and secure...
Page 154 - ... by the enlarged dominion which he left to his successors; for at his death the Jewish kingdom included Mount Carmel and all the coast as far as Rhinocolura; it embraced on the south all Idumea ; northward it extended to Scythopolis (Bethshan) and Mount Tabor; and beyond Jordan it comprehended Gaulonitis, and all the territory of Gadara, including the land of the Moabites on the south, and extending as far as Pella on the east. Alexander...
Page 174 - God, will choose ; from the midst of thy brethren shalt thou set a king over thee ; thou mayest not set over thee a stranger who is not thy brother.
Page 237 - ... hopes. One of them, Phasael, was already governor of Jerusalem, and another, Herod, was governor of Galilee. These, it will be perceived, were two of the five districts into which the country had been divided by Gabinius. Thus the family went on gathering strength from day to day, while the Asmonean family — through the imbecility of Hyrcanus, and the reverses of Aristobulus and his sons — sustained a daily loss of power and influence. In the contest between Pompey and Caesar, Antipater,...
Page 156 - ... her above all things to cultivate their favor, and to attempt no public measure without their approval. This advice may have been good ; but the motive claims no high commendation. He wished his wife to reign after him; and to secure that private object he was willing that all the energies of the government should be sacrificed, and that all the powers of the state should be thrown into the hands of men whom, whether justly or not, he despised and hated.