The Wars of the Jews, 6.164

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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1649. In the meantime, the Jews were so distressed by the fights they had been in, as the war advanced higher and higher, and creeping up to the holy house itself, that they, as it were, cut off those limbs of their body which were infected, in order to prevent the distemper’s spreading farther;

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