c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.385

The Wars of the Jews 5.385

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.385

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

385how they were smitten with a loathsome distemper in the secret parts of their bodies, when their very bowels came down together with what they had eaten, till those hands that stole it away were obliged to bring it back again, and that with the sound of cymbals and timbrels, and other oblations, in order to appease the anger of God for their violation of his holy ark.