c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.12

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.12

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.12

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

123. Now, for the Pharisees, they live meanly, and despise delicacies in diet; and they follow the conduct of reason; and what that prescribes to them as good for them they do; and they think they ought earnestly to strive to observe reason’s dictates for practice. They also pay a respect to such as are in years; nor are they so bold as to contradict them in any thing which they have introduced;