c. AD 97

J. Ap. 1.270

Against Apion 1.270

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

1.270

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

270Yet are we beholden to Manetho, that he does not lay the principal charge of this horrid transgression upon those that came from Jerusalem, but says that the Egyptians themselves were the most guilty, and that they were their priests that contrived these things, and made the multitude take their oaths for doing so;