c. AD 97

J. Ap. 1.314

Against Apion 1.314

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

1.314

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

314What people does he mean? foreigners, or those of that country? Why then dost thou call them Jews, if they were Egyptians? But if they were foreigners, why dost thou not tell us whence they came? And how could it be that, after the king had thrown many of them into the sea, and ejected the rest into desert places, there should be still so great a multitude remaining?