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The Antiquities of the Jews

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(27) Of these cloisters of Solomon, see the description of the
temple, ch. 13. They seem, by Josephus's words, to have been
built from the bottom of the valley.

(28) See the Life at the beginning of the volume.

(29) What Josephus here declares his intention to do, if God
permitted, to give the public again an abridgement of the Jewish
War hear of it elsewhere, whether he performed what he now
intended or not. Some of the reasons of this design of his might
possibly be, his observation of the many errors he had been
guilty of in the two first of those seven books of the War, which
were written when he was comparatively young, and less acquainted
with the Jewish antiquities than he now was, and in which
abridgement we might have hoped to find those many passages which
himself, as well as those several passages which others refer to,
as written by him, but which are not extant in his present works.
However, since many of his own references to what he had written
elsewhere, as well as most of his own errors, belong to such
early times as could not well come into this abridgement of the
Jewish War; and since none of those that quote things not now
extant in his works, including himself as well as others, ever
cite any such abridgement; I am forced rather to suppose that he
never did publish any such work at all; I mean, as distinct from
his own Life, written by himself, for an appendix to these
Antiquities, and this at least seven years after these
Antiquities were finished. Nor indeed does it appear to me that
Josephus ever published that other work here mentioned, as
intended by him for the public also: I mean the three or four
books concerning God and his essence, and concerning the Jewish
laws; why, according to them, some things were permitted the
Jews, and others prohibited; which last seems to be the same work
which Josephus had also promised, if God permitted, at the
conclusion of his preface to these Antiquities; nor do I suppose
that he ever published any of them. The death of all his friends
at court, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian, and the coming of those
he had no acquaintance with to the crown, I mean Nerva and
Trajan, together with his removal from Rome to Judea, with what
followed it, might easily interrupt such his intentions, and
prevent his publication of those works.

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