c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.9

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.9

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.9

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

9Such were the consequences of this, that the customs of our fathers were altered, and such a change was made, as added a mighty weight toward bringing all to destruction, which these men occasioned by their thus conspiring together; for Judas and Sadduc, who excited a fourth philosophic sect among us, and had a great many followers therein, filled our civil government with tumults at present, and laid the foundations of our future miseries, by this system of philosophy, which we were before unacquainted withal,