c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.143

The Wars of the Jews 2.143

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.143

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

1438. But for those that are caught in any heinous sins, they cast them out of their society; and he who is thus separated from them does often die after a miserable manner; for as he is bound by the oath he hath taken, and by the customs he hath been engaged in, he is not at liberty to partake of that food that he meets with elsewhere, but is forced to eat grass, and to famish his body with hunger, till he perish;