c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.346

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.346

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.346

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

346And when he was awake and gotten up, because the vision appeared to be of great importance to him, he sent for the diviners, whose study was employed about dreams. And while some were of one opinion, and some of another, (for all their interpretations did not agree,) Simon, a man of the sect of the Essenes, desired leave to speak his mind freely, and said that the vision denoted a change in the affairs of Archelaus, and that not for the better;