c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.90

The Wars of the Jews 2.90

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.90

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

90that, however, those that were left after so many miseries, had just reason to consider now at last the calamities they had undergone, and to oppose themselves, like soldiers in war, to receive those stripes upon their faces [but not upon their backs, as hitherto]. Whereupon they prayed that the Romans would have compassion upon the [poor] remains of Judea, and not expose what was left of them to such as barbarously tore them to pieces,