c. AD 94

J. AJ 19.294

The Antiquities of the Jews 19.294

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

19.294

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

294on which account he ordained that many of the Nazarites should have their heads shorn. And for the golden chain which had been given him by Caius, of equal weight with that iron chain wherewith his royal hands had been bound, he hung it up within the limits of the temple, over the treasury, that it might be a memorial of the severe fate he had lain under, and a testimony of his change for the better; that it might be a demonstration how the greatest prosperity may have a fall, and that God sometimes raises up what is fallen down: