c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.88

The Wars of the Jews 5.88

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.88

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

88earnestly exhorting him to give way to these Jews that are fond of dying, and not to run into such dangers before those that ought to stay before him; to consider what his fortune was, and not, by supplying the place of a common soldier, to venture to turn back upon the enemy so suddenly; and this because he was general in the war, and lord of the habitable earth, on whose preservation the public affairs do all depend.