c. AD 77

J. BJ 7.418

The Wars of the Jews 7.418

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

7.418

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

418For when all sorts of torments and vexations of their bodies that could be devised were made use of to them, they could not get anyone of them to comply so far as to confess, or seem to confess, that Caesar was their lord; but they preserved their own opinion, in spite of all the distress they were brought to, as if they received these torments and the fire itself with bodies insensible of pain, and with a soul that in a manner rejoiced under them.