c. AD 77

J. BJ 3.42

The Wars of the Jews 3.42

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

3.42

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

42for the Galileans are inured to war from their infancy, and have been always very numerous; nor hath the country been ever destitute of men of courage, or wanted a numerous set of them; for their soil is universally rich and fruitful, and full of the plantations of trees of all sorts, insomuch that it invites the most slothful to take pains in its cultivation, by its fruitfulness;