c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.355

The Wars of the Jews 5.355

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.355

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

355but as they believed death with torments must be their punishment, if they did not go on in the defense of the city, they thought it much better to die in war. Fate also prevailed so far over them, that the innocent were to perish with the guilty, and the city was to be destroyed with the seditious that were in it.