Re: Argument with theist over Josephus writings

Jesus Christ was the greatest prophet that ever lived, Jesus told the
Jews ''Truely I say to you, All these things will come upon this
generation''

Josephus confirms the fulfilment of Jesus'
prophecy, the Romans came to destroy Jerusalem exactly 33 yrs to the day
that Jesus was crucified.

(Josephus)
''for they were come up from all the country to the feast of unleavened
bread, and were on a sudden shut up by an army , which, at the very
first, occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a
pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine as
destroyed them more suddenly''

sustenance.Numbering Well Over On 
Subject: your ancestors 
for their sustenance.Numbering Well Over One Million Book VI, Chapter
IX, Section 3 (Entire) 
The Number Of Captives, And Of Those That Perished In The Siege. 

 ''Now the number of those that were carried captive during the whole
war was collected to be ninety-seven thousand ; as was the number of
those that perished during the whole siege, eleven hundred thousand * ,
the greater part of whom were indeed of the same nation, [with the
citizens of Jerusalem,] but not belonging to the city itself; for they
were come up from all the country to the feast of unleavened bread, and
were on a sudden shut up by an army , which, at the very first,
occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a
pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine as
destroyed them more suddenly. And that this city could contain so many
people in it is manifest by that number of them which was taken under
Cestius, who being desirous of informing Nero of the power of the city,
who otherwise was disposed to contemn that nation, entreated the high
priests, if the thing were possible, to take the number of their whole
multitude. So these high priests, upon the coming of their feast which
is called the Passover, when they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth
hour to the eleventh, but so that a company not less than belong to
every sacrifice, (for it is not lawful for them to feast singly by
themselves,) and many of us are twenty in a company, found the number of
sacrifices was two hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred; which,
upon the allowance of no more than ten that feast together, amounts to
two millions seven hundred thousand and two hundred persons that were
pure and holy; for as to those that have the leprosy, or the gonorrhea,
or women that have their monthly courses, or such as are otherwise
polluted, it is not lawful for them to be partakers of this sacrifice;
nor indeed for any foreigners neither, who come hither to

On Jan 29, 4:19 am, leonard-abb...@webtv.net (Leonard Abbott) wrote:
>  Re: Argument with theist over Josephus writings
>
> Jesus Christ was the greatest prophet that ever lived, Jesus told the
> Jews ''Truely I say to you, All these things will come upon this
> generation''
>
> Josephus confirms the fulfilment of Jesus'
> prophecy, the Romans came to destroy Jerusalem exactly 33 yrs to the day
> that Jesus was crucified.
>
> (Josephus)
> ''for they were come up from all the country to the feast of unleavened
> bread, and were on a sudden shut up by an army , which, at the very
> first, occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a
> pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine as
> destroyed them more suddenly''
>
> sustenance.Numbering Well Over On
> Subject: your ancestors
> for their sustenance.Numbering Well Over One Million Book VI, Chapter
> IX, Section 3 (Entire)
> The Number Of Captives, And Of Those That Perished In The Siege.
>
>  ''Now the number of those that were carried captive during the whole
> war was collected to be ninety-seven thousand ; as was the number of
> those that perished during the whole siege, eleven hundred thousand * ,
> the greater part of whom were indeed of the same nation, [with the
> citizens of Jerusalem,] but not belonging to the city itself; for they
> were come up from all the country to the feast of unleavened bread, and
> were on a sudden shut up by an army , which, at the very first,
> occasioned so great a straitness among them, that there came a
> pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine as
> destroyed them more suddenly. And that this city could contain so many
> people in it is manifest by that number of them which was taken under
> Cestius, who being desirous of informing Nero of the power of the city,
> who otherwise was disposed to contemn that nation, entreated the high
> priests, if the thing were possible, to take the number of their whole
> multitude. So these high priests, upon the coming of their feast which
> is called the Passover, when they slay their sacrifices, from the ninth
> hour to the eleventh, but so that a company not less than belong to
> every sacrifice, (for it is not lawful for them to feast singly by
> themselves,) and many of us are twenty in a company, found the number of
> sacrifices was two hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred; which,
> upon the allowance of no more than ten that feast together, amounts to
> two millions seven hundred thousand and two hundred persons that were
> pure and holy; for as to those that have the leprosy, or the gonorrhea,
> or women that have their monthly courses, or such as are otherwise
> polluted, it is not lawful for them to be partakers of this sacrifice;
> nor indeed for any foreigners neither, who come hither to

REPLY:  Praise God for the historical evidences for Christ and who he
claimed and proved to be.