c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.154

The Wars of the Jews 2.154

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.154

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

15411. For their doctrine is this: That bodies are corruptible, and that the matter they are made of is not permanent; but that the souls are immortal, and continue forever; and that they come out of the most subtile air, and are united to their bodies as to prisons, into which they are drawn by a certain natural enticement;