| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1814 - 518 pages
...should obtain the empire of the world. This they understood to belong to themselves, and many of their men were mistaken in their judgment ; for this oracle...to the government of Vespasian, who was proclaimed emperour in Judea."* This you observe is the explanation of Josephus, in compliment to his imperial... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1815 - 446 pages
...that time some one" from Judea should obtain the empire of the world. This they understood te-belong to themselves, and many of their wise men were mistaken...to the government of Vespasian, who was proclaimed emperour in Judea."* This you observe is the explanation of Josephus, in compliment to his imperial... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Congregational churches - 1821 - 450 pages
...that time some one from Judea should obtain the' empire of the world. This they understood to belong to themselves, and many of their wise men were mistaken...who wrote, about the same time, the biography of the emperours. His words are these ; " There had been for a long time all over the east, a notion firmly... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...that time some one from Judea should obtain the empire of the world. Thi« they understood to belong to themselves, and many of their wise men were mistaken...Judea."* This, you observe, is the explanation of Josepbus, in compliment to his imperial master. The second is from Suetonius, a Roman historian, who... | |
| 1854 - 512 pages
...that time, some one from Judea should obtain the empire of the world. This, they understood to belong to themselves ; and many of their wise men were mistaken...of Vespasian, who was proclaimed Emperor in Judea." The second is from Suetonius. His words are : , " There had been, for a long time, all over the East,... | |
| Joseph Frederick Berg - Bible - 1854 - 274 pages
...that time some one from Judea should obtain the empire of the world. This they understood to belong to themselves, and many of their wise men were mistaken...of Vespasian, who was proclaimed emperor in Judea." Josephus gives this explanation as a compliment to his master, the Emperor. The second testimony is... | |
| Edward Bishop Elliott - 1862 - 878 pages
...some one' from their country should obtain the empire of the world. This they understood to belong to themselves, and many of their wise men were mistaken in their judgment of it." s The same fact is mentioned in their notices of the breaking out of the Jewish war by the... | |
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