Works of Flavius Josephus, Part 2
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780766134713
Subjects: Judaism; Judaism - General; Religion; Religion - Judaism
First sentence: As King Herod was very zealous in the administration of this entire government, and desirous to put a stop to particular acts of injustice which were done by criminals about the city and country, he made a law, noway like our original laws, and which he enacted of himself, to expose housebreakers to be ejected out of his kingdom; which punishment was not only grievous to be borne by the offenders but contained in it a dissolution of the customs of our forefathers; for this slavery to foreigners and such as did not live after the manners of Jews, and this necessity that they were under to do whatsoever such men should command, was an offense against our religious settlement, rather than a punishment to such as were found to have offended, such a punishment being avoided in our original laws; for those laws ordain, that the thief shall restore fourfold; and that if he have not so much, he shall be sold, indeed, but not to foreigners, nor so that he be under perpetual slavery, for he must have been released after six years.