c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.372

The Wars of the Jews 3.372

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.372

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

372The bodies of all men are indeed mortal, and are created out of corruptible matter; but the soul is ever immortal, and is a portion of the divinity that inhabits our bodies. Besides, if anyone destroys or abuses a depositum he hath received from a mere man, he is esteemed a wicked and perfidious person; but then if anyone cast out of his body this Divine depositum, can we imagine that he who is thereby affronted does not know of it.