c. AD 77

J. BJ 5.458

The Wars of the Jews 5.458

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

5.458

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

458In answer to which the seditious cast reproaches upon Caesar himself, and upon his father also, and cried out, with a loud voice, that they contemned death, and did well in preferring it before slavery; that they would do all the mischief to the Romans they could while they had breath in them; and that for their own city, since they were, as he said, to be destroyed, they had no concern about it, and that the world itself was a better temple to God than this.