c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.581

The Wars of the Jews 2.581

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.581

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

581He told them that he should make trial of the good order they would observe in war, even before it came to any battle, in case they would abstain from the crimes they used to indulge themselves in, such as theft, and robbery, and rapine, and from defrauding their own countrymen, and never to esteem the harm done to those that were so near of kin to them to be any advantage to themselves;