 | Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh - Religion - 1993 - 292 pages
...dies: such is the superabundance it has of immortality.3 According to Josephus, Eleazar concludes: 'Let us die unenslaved by our enemies, and leave this...as free men in company with our wives and children. That is what the Law ordains.'4 On occasion, Josephus is unreliable. When he is so, however, it shows.... | |
 | Frieda Clark Hyman - Jerusalem - 2001 - 428 pages
...through their own cowardice, if they have a chance to forestall them by death and will not take it... Come! While our hands are free and can hold a sword, let them do noble service! Let us die unenslaved by our enemies, and leave this world as free men in company with... | |
 | Devin Sper - History - 2004 - 401 pages
...the thumb of Rome who would not pity? Who would not hasten to die rather than share their fate? . . . Come! While our hands are free and can hold a sword,...as free men in company with our wives and children. That is what the Law ordains, that is what our wives and children demand of us, the necessity God has... | |
 | Christopher Kelly - History - 2006 - 168 pages
...final hours of the last remnants of the Jewish revolt and the rallying cry of their leader, Eleazar. Come! While our hands are free and can hold a sword, let them serve us nobly. Let us die unenslaved by our enemies and as free men quit this life along with our... | |
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Father!" when his own hands are fettered. Come! while our hands are free and can hold a sword, let them do a noble service ! Let us die unenslaved by our enemies, and leave this world as free men in company with our wives and children. 