The famous and memorable works of Josephus ... / Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Physick.

Josephus

Date:: [1640]

Credit: The famous and memorable works of Josephus ... / Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Physick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$| a ; li P te ‘ , \ eee eer iiia de $ s i. 86 Numb.25. JOSEPHUS, OF THE ANTIQUITIES T Il MEET t e ee nnn nee UL TUIEIIIID ES ara g tL | <A> extrenie love.) Well chen (faidthe virgins) fince that you are fo pleafed, and that you have G | j i ita T bei manners fo different from others, that you alfo ufe your proper meats according to yourpe- | i | be che culiar manner, neither can you endure that your drink be common with other mens ; it be- À tk Ml tivity, 1476 liooveth you, ifyou will live withus, to adore our gods. For by no other argument may | B. M Pow you perfwade us that yourlove isunfained, except you honour as we doe, the fame gods: | E Thea re, Heither fhall you be blamed if you honour the gods of that countrey, into which you are a m ME M of Madian », come, confidering that our gods are common unto allnations, whereas your God is adored B ow VIN eel C. by noneother but your felves. Tt behoveth you therefore (faid they) to conforme your B ul | Idolatrie, felvesin opinion with other men, or that ye feek out another world, wherein you might live | - i folely accordifig to your particular policy and religion. | | Bri quA E The Hebrewes blinded with the love which they bare untothe virgins, conceived well H B C i E nm of their words, and confented to that which they faid, fuffering themfelves to be féduced | ^ Wali} chelove of according as they were invited ; fothatthey tranfgreffed the ordinances of their fathers; | (9i | the women, in following ftrange gods ; to whom they purpofed to doe facrifice according to the man- a || twelefom ^ perofthecountrey. They tooke pleafure alfoto eate ftrange kinds of meats which were | ie their fathers. prohibited them by the law, and addicted themfelves toall kinds of.pleafure , according | . | asthe women perfwaded them , fotliatthe wholearmy was infected with a diffolute difor- | z der (amongft the youngérfort) and a worfe mutiny arofe thereby then the precedent, ie wherethrough it was to befufpected, left the whole courfe of law and government fhould | NM * ; \ beperverted. For the youth having once had atouch of thefe forraine and lafcivious fa 1 h. | fhions: were unfatiably tranfported with the fame: and if there were any more excellent NT | / then others in nobility, they together (withthe reft ofthe multitude) were retchlefly | js abs ant COrtuptédi Zumbrias Mo of the tribe of Simeon’ (and one of the Princes among them, bo Cosby. marrying ‘Gasby the Madianite , daughter unto 77; agovernour of that countrey) at the ai Molesaccu- | ''cotimandemient of lii? wife,and in contempt of CM ofes lawes, for her fake did facrifice after Le ee ido. 2 forrain'tadter, and-contrary.to the law difportéd with his fortain wife which wasa ftranger. | lary and vo- * During this éftate of affaires, CMofes being afraid left fome more grievous mifchiefe fhould fi IN. fepmouncie fnceeed; called the people together, accufing io man inparticular (forthat he was unwil- | ben | » ling'to draw them into defperation, who whileft they think they lie hidden, may be reduced > co à béttérmihd )but het Sid them that it was athing unworthy & ill-befeeming themfelves K » ottheirelders, that they fhould fet more by their pleafures; then by God and theif religion, ^^ — | n FE » 'Fhatit behóooved them whileft they had time, to repent themfelves, and that they fhewed an » themielves to be valiahttmen, not by contempt oflaws, but by appeafing their difordinate thou nn. » défites, Befides hetold thém that it was an abfurd thing, that whereas in the defart they lived un ES UU nn >: modeltly,they fhould nowin a plentifull countrey grow fó diffolute & difordinate, as to lofe Ju i > that by affluence which'they had gotby temperance.In füch like fpeeches he indevoured to exh core thé youth, & to reduce them toa better minde: wheteupon Zambrias rifing up,fpake 7 anbias o, AMertlismaner: M ofes (faith he) ufe thou thine own laws (whereunto by long ufe thou haft con again» added ftréength and confirmation) which hadft thou not done’, oft-times ere this hadft thou H 2. |) Mofes. faffered pañifhment, and learnt to thine own miferie) thatthe Hebrewswerenottobede- L '- A] T | | » luded:for my felf thou fhaléever tie meto thy tyrannical'dectees;forhithertohaftthouins ^| | ff Eu >> devoured nowight elfe; but uridér pretext oflaw & religion, to bring us into fervitude & fub. 1 | » jectioriand thy felf by thiy fübtill & finifter means,to honer and foveraignty ; taking from us È F 1 » thepleafures'& libertie ofoürlives (things that belong to free men, and füchas appertain or | Y | | EM » livenorttdeiny mans government.)For this fhould be wore then an Egyptian thraldom; | te M » topuniftrevery man by thy laws, according to thine own pleafure ; whereas thou thy felfare H à — EDU jj nioreworth$tobe punifhed , in that thoudifannulleft that thing which is approvédby all — fy B > miéns confent ; and defireft that thy decrees fhould be of more force,tlien all the refolutions | vi i 3» ofallothe? moitall men whatfoever. But I (as touching that which I do) inthatIfüppofeit | fa i > corbe'well dore,anr hot afraid to confeffe in this affembly, naniély,thatThavetakenaftran-M, | vit VR -Serto wife : thou heareft mine actions. from mine own, mouth; as from free and refolute ^ | pmi puo ^ man;heitliéerdoe Edefire that they fhould be hidden. I likewife factifice to the gods conis i One tratieto ourcüftomé ; becaufel fuppofe itto be both juft and neceffary , that from many | tety Tfeeke the truth; and not (depending'as it were upona tytannie, orliving therétinder) E] fo to build:my faith upon one onely : for no man fhall pleafe me that will have, gore il. E] uy ^ tereft in mine actions then my felfe, “Whileft Zambria alledged this both for himfelf and E] ul other ofhisfa@tion ; the people filently expected the iffüe of this audacious boldneffe, efpe-* E] hs AUTE cially for that they faw their Law-maker would not contend, any longer, left héfhould zs il ^ maken infolent man mote outragions ; for he feared left divers fuch'in imitation of ‘him ins$