The Antiquities of the Jews, 8.217

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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217They advised him to give the following answer to the people (for neither their youth nor God himself suffered them to discern what was best): That his little finger should be thicker than his father’s loins; and if they had met with hard usage from his father, they should experience much rougher treatment from him; and if his father had chastised them with whips, that they must expect that he would do it with scorpions.

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