c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.456

The Wars of the Jews 5.456

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.456

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

456with this exhortation, that they would now at length leave off [their madness], and not force him to destroy the city, whereby they would have those advantages of repentance, even in their utmost distress, that they would preserve their own lives, and so find a city of their own, and that temple which was their peculiar.