c. AD 94

J. AJ 20.236

The Antiquities of the Jews 20.236

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

20.236

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

236On which account Onias, who was the nephew of Onias that was dead, and bore the same name with his father, came into Egypt, and got into the friendship of Ptolemy Philometor, and Cleopatra his wife, and persuaded them to make him the high priest of that temple which he built to God in the prefecture of Heliopolis, and this in imitation of that at Jerusalem;