c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.66

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.66

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.66

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

66And what hatred he bore to his father; and that he complained to his mother how very long his father lived; and that he was himself almost an old man, insomuch that if the kingdom should come to him, it would not afford him any great pleasure; and that there were a great many of his brothers, or brothers’ children, bringing up, that might have hopes of the kingdom as well as himself, all which made his own hopes of it uncertain;