c. AD 97

J. Ap. 2.75

Against Apion 2.75

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

2.75

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

75But then our legislator hath forbidden us to make images, not by way of denunciation beforehand, that the Roman authority was not to be honored, but as despising a thing that was neither necessary nor useful for either God or man; and he forbade them, as we shall prove hereafter, to make these images for any part of the animal creation,