"Now Antiochus was not satisfied either with his unexpected taking the city , or with its pillage, or with the great slaughter he had made there; but being overcome with his violent passions, and remembering what he had suffered during the siege, he compelled the Jews to dissolve the laws of their country, and to keep their infants uncircumcised, and to sacrifice swine's flesh upon the altar; against which they all opposed themselves, and the most approved among them were put to death."

“s:Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades, an short essay on the Jewish Pharisees' view of the afterlife.”

“Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.”

“s:The War of the Jews, De Bello Judaico, which he says was a translation of an earlier version written in Chaldaic Hebrew.”

“s:The Life of Flavius Josephus, Vita, an autobiography.”

“Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else.”

“Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.”