c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.30

The Wars of the Jews 2.30

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.30

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

30And indeed the purport of his whole discourse was to aggravate Archelaus’s crime in slaying such a multitude about the temple, which multitude came to the festival, but were barbarously slain in the midst of their own sacrifices; and he said there was such a vast number of dead bodies heaped together in the temple, as even a foreign war, that should come upon them [suddenly], before it was denounced, could not have heaped together.