Almost a week behind, but hope to finish Apion this weekend.
Interesting and strange rumors about Jewish practices--like kidnapping and sacrificing a Greek (95).
Interesting description of the temple holiness layers (103-5).
Interesting comments on sin:
"to those who believe that their lives are under the eye of God all sin is intolerable" (160).
"our leader [Moses] made the Law the standard and rule, that we might live under it as under a father and master, and be guilty of no sin through wilfulness or ignorance" (174).
The word theocracy is used at 165 in description of Mosaic rule.
God is the One, uncreated, immutable God, whose being itself is beyond knowledge, inscrutable (167).
Godliness for Moses, according to Josephus, is not one virtue but the virtue of which other virtues are only a part (e.g., justice, temperance, etc.) 170.
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