c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.94

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.94

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.94

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

94Then did Antipater fall down at his father’s feet, and besought him not to prejudge his cause, but that he might be first heard by his father, and that his father would keep himself unprejudiced. So Herod ordered him to be brought into the midst, and then lamented himself about his children, from whom he had suffered such great misfortunes; and because Antipater fell upon him in his old age. He also reckoned up what maintenance and what education he had given them; and what seasonable supplies of wealth he had afforded them, according to their own desires;