 | Flavius Josephus - 1814 - 486 pagina’s
...that tied him. this root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after...getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 326 pagina’s
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor, after...getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1824 - 356 pagina’s
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor, after...getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1824 - 596 pagina’s
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up ; but the dog dies immediately : as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away. Nor after...this need any one be afraid of taking it into their h;mds. Yet after all this pains in getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 610 pagina’s
...dies immediate!'-, as if it were instead of the man that would take thé plant away ; nor after tins need any one be afraid of taking it into their hands....getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | John Mather Austin - 1842 - 194 pagina’s
...? A. In speaking of a remarkable root called baaras) which it was difficult to procure, he says, " Yet after all this pains in getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it only be brought to sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons, which... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1852 - 712 pagina’s
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up ; but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after...getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons, which... | |
 | Walter Balfour - 1854 - 408 pagina’s
...and in his Jewish War, book vn.,'chap. vi., sect. 3, speaking of a very remarkable root he says, " Yet after all this pains in getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1856 - 604 pagina’s
...that tied him, this root is easily plucked up ; but the dog dies immediately, as if it were instead of the man that would take the plant away ; nor after this need any one be afraid of taking it into tlieir hands. Yet after all this pains in yetting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it... | |
 | 1859 - 852 pagina’s
...touch it, unless any one take and hang the root itself down from his hand, and so carry it away. . . . Yet, after all this pains in getting, it is only valuable on account of one virtue it hath, that if it be only brought to the sick persons, it quickly drives away those called demons,... | |
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... they dig a trench quite round about it, till the hidden part of the root be very small, they then tie a dog to it, and when the dog tries hard to follow him that tied him, this root is easily plucked up, but the dog dies immediately, as if it were... 
