The Wars of the Jews, 3.378

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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378The laws of other nations also enjoin such men’s hands to be cut off when they are dead, which had been made use of in destroying themselves when alive, while they reckoned that as the body is alien from the soul, so is the hand alien from the body.

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