c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.402

The Wars of the Jews 5.402

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.402

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

402You have not avoided so much as those sins that are usually done in secret; I mean thefts, and treacherous plots against men, and adulteries. You are quarreling about rapines and murders, and invent strange ways of wickedness. Nay, the temple itself is become the receptacle of all, and this Divine place is polluted by the hands of those of our own country; which place hath yet been reverenced by the Romans when it was at a distance from them, when they have suffered many of their own customs to give place to our law.