c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.28

The Wars of the Jews 2.28

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.28

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

28that he had also complied in all things with the people in the requests they had made to him as to their king, and had also dismissed those that had been put into bonds by his father for most important reasons. Now, after all this, he desires the shadow of that royal authority, whose substance he had already seized to himself, and so hath made Caesar lord, not of things, but of words.