c. AD 77

J. BJ 6.48

The Wars of the Jews 6.48

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

6.48

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

48while upon those souls that wear away in and with their distempered bodies comes a subterranean night to dissolve them to nothing, and a deep oblivion to take away all the remembrance of them, and this notwithstanding they be clean from all spots and defilements of this world; so that, in this case, the soul at the same time comes to the utmost bounds of its life, and of its body, and of its memorial also.