c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.313

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.313

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.313

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

313That he had given a specimen of his future virtue to his subjects, and with what kind of moderation and good administration he would govern them, by that his first action, which concerned them, his own citizens, and God himself also, when he made the slaughter of three thousand of his own countrymen at the temple. How then could they avoid the just hatred of him, who, to the rest of his barbarity, hath added this as one of our crimes, that we have opposed and contradicted him in the exercise of his authority?