The Antiquities of the Jews, 7.150

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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150This discourse troubled the king exceedingly; and he denounced to Nathan, that “this man was a wicked man who could dare to do such a thing; and that it was but just that he should restore the lamb fourfold, and be punished with death for it also.” Upon this Nathan immediately said that he was himself the man who ought to suffer those punishments, and that by his own sentence; and that it was he who had perpetrated this ‘great and horrid crime.’

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