c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.523

The Wars of the Jews 1.523

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.523

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

523That they always find their father unmercifully severe, and have no natural affection for any of them but for Antipater; on which accounts, if this plot does not take, he is very willing to die; but that in case he kill his father, he hath sufficient opportunities for saving himself. In the first place, he hath Archelaus his father-in-law to whom he can easily fly; and in the next place, he hath Caesar, who had never known Herod’s character to this day;