1. Septuagint, 2 Maccabees, 1.1, 6.1, 6.6, 10.8, 13.14 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, citizenship, language of Found in books: Lieu (2004) 243, 244 | 1.1. The Jewish brethren in Jerusalem and those in the land of Judea, To their Jewish brethren in Egypt, Greeting, and good peace.' 6.1. Not long after this, the king sent an Athenian senator to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their fathers and cease to live by the laws of God,' 6.6. A man could neither keep the sabbath, nor observe the feasts of his fathers, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew.' 10.8. They decreed by public ordice and vote that the whole nation of the Jews should observe these days every year." 13.14. So, committing the decision to the Creator of the world and exhorting his men to fight nobly to the death for the laws, temple, city, country, and commonwealth, he pitched his camp near Modein.' |
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2. Philo of Alexandria, On Curses, 29 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, citizenship, language of Found in books: Lieu (2004) 224 | 29. In this passage, therefore, he commands another being to stand with him: but in another place he says, "I will go down with thee to Egypt, and I will conduct thee to the End." He does not say, Thou shalt go down with me. Why not? Because calmness and stability are the especial attributes of God; but a liability to change one's place, and every kind of motion which has a tendency to change the place, is incident to a created being. When, therefore, he invites the man to his own peculiar good, he says, "Stand thou with me:" not "I will stand with thee." For "will stand," cannot be said of God, who always stands still. |
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3. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 1.12-1.14 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, citizenship, language of Found in books: Lieu (2004) 224 | 1.12. But we must now turn to the special and particular laws; and first of all to those which relate to those people by whom it is well to be governed, those which have been enacted concerning Monarchy.{2}{yonge's translation includes a separate treatise title at this point: On Monarchy, Book I. Accordingly, his next paragraph begins with roman numeral I (= III in Loeb 1.13. Some persons have conceived that the sun, and the moon, and the other stars are independent gods, to whom they have attributed the causes of all things that exist. But Moses was well aware that the world was created, and was like a very large city, having rulers and subjects in it; the rulers being all the bodies which are in heaven, such as planets and fixed stars; 1.14. and the subjects being all the natures beneath the moon, hovering in the air and adjacent to the earth. But that the rulers aforesaid are not independent and absolute, but are the viceroys of one supreme Being, the Father of all, in imitation of whom they administer with propriety and success the charge committed to their care, as he also presides over all created things in strict accordance with justice and with law. Others, on the contrary, who have not discovered the supreme Governor, who thus rules everything, have attributed the causes of the different things which exist in the world to the subordinate powers, as if they had brought them to pass by their own independent act. |
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4. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 14.194, 14.216 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, citizenship, language of Found in books: Lieu (2004) 224 | 14.194. for these reasons I will that Hyrcanus, the son of Alexander, and his children, be ethnarchs of the Jews, and have the high priesthood of the Jews for ever, according to the customs of their forefathers, and that he and his sons be our confederates; and that besides this, everyone of them be reckoned among our particular friends. 14.216. Accordingly, when I forbid other Bacchanal rioters, I permit these Jews to gather themselves together, according to the customs and laws of their forefathers, and to persist therein. It will be therefore good for you, that if you have made any decree against these our friends and confederates, to abrogate the same, by reason of their virtue and kind disposition towards us.” |
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5. Josephus Flavius, Against Apion, 2.193 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, citizenship, language of Found in books: Lieu (2004) 224 | 2.193. 24. There ought also to be but one temple for one God; for likeness is the constant foundation of agreement. This temple ought to be common to all men, because he is the common God of all men. His priests are to be continually about his worship, over whom he that is the first by his birth is to be their ruler perpetually. |
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| 6. Anon., Marytrdom of Polycarp, 2.3, 3.2, 10.1, 17.1 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, citizenship, language of Found in books: Lieu (2004) 256 |
| 7. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 15.18.5-15.18.10 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, citizenship, language of Found in books: Lieu (2004) 256 |
| 8. Anon., Letter From Vienna And Lyons, 15.1.31 Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, citizenship, language of Found in books: Lieu (2004) 256 |
9. Septuagint, 4 Maccabees, 5.7 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lieu (2004) 243 | 5.7. for I respect your age and your gray hairs. Although you have had them for so long a time, it does not seem to me that you are a philosopher when you observe the religion of the Jews. |
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| 10. Anon., Epistle To Diognetus, 4.6, 6.1-6.4 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lieu (2004) 263 |
