约瑟夫的一生__Josephus, Flavius.pdf

英文名著3000 本 The Life of Flavius Josephus by Flavius Josephus Translated by William Whiston 1 英文名著3000 本 1. The family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests; and as nobility among several people is of a different origin, so with us to be of the sacerdotal dignity, is an indication of the splendor of a family.Now, I am not only sprung from a sacerdotal family in general,but from the first of the twenty-four (1) courses; and as among us there is not only a considerable difference between one family of each course and another, I am of the chief family of that first course also; nay, further, by my mother I am of the royal blood; for the children of Asamoneus, from whom that family was derived, had both the office of the high priesthood, and the dignity of a king, for a long time together. I will accordingly set down my progenitors in order. My grandfathers father was named Simon, with the addition of Psellus: he lived at the same time with that son of Simon the high priest, who first of all the high priests 2 英文名著3000 本 was named Hyrcanus. This Simon Psellus had nine sons, one of whom was Matthias, called Ephlias: he married the daughter of Jonathan the high priest, which Jonathan was the first of the sons of Asamoneus, who was high priest, and was the brother of Simon the high priest also. This Matthias had a son called Matthias Curtus, and that in the first year of the government of Hyrcanus: his sons name was Joseph, born in the ninth year of the reign of Alexandra: his son Matthias was born in the tenth year o