c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.587

The Wars of the Jews 1.587

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.587

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

587and that Antipater oftentimes lamented his own case before his mother, and said to her, that he had already gray hairs upon his head, and that his father grew younger again every day, and that perhaps death would overtake him before he should begin to be a king in earnest; and that in case Herod should die, which yet nobody knew when it would be, the enjoyment of the succession could certainly be but for a little time;