c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.212

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.212

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.212

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

212so he made this to be the omen, that the government should be left to him who should come to him first the next day. When he had thus resolved within himself, he sent to his grandson’s tutor, and ordered him to bring the child to him early in the morning, as supposing that God would permit him to be made emperor. But God proved opposite to his designation;