c. AD 94

J. AJ 16.45

The Antiquities of the Jews 16.45

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

16.45

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

45Now our adversaries take these our privileges away in the way of injustice; they violently seize upon that money of ours which is owed to God, and called sacred money, and this openly, after a sacrilegious manner; and they impose tributes upon us, and bring us before tribunals on holy days, and then require other like debts of us, not because the contracts require it, and for their own advantage, but because they would put an affront on our religion, of which they are conscious as well as we, and have indulged themselves in an unjust, and to them involuntary, hatred;