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[145]
But Zimri arose up after him, and said, "Yes, indeed, Moses,
thou art at liberty to make use of such laws as thou art so fond of, and
hast, by accustoming thyself to them, made them firm; otherwise, if things
had not been thus, thou hadst often been punished before now, and hadst
known that the Hebrews are not easily put upon; but thou shalt not have
me one of thy followers in thy tyrannical commands, for thou dost nothing
else hitherto, but, under pretense of laws, and of God, wickedly impose
on us slavery, and gain dominion to thyself, while thou deprivest us of
the sweetness of life, which consists in acting according to our own wills,
and is the right of free-men, and of those that have no lord over them.
Nay, indeed, this man is harder upon the Hebrews then were the Egyptians
themselves, as pretending to punish, according to his laws, every one's
acting what is most agreeable to himself; but thou thyself better deservest
to suffer punishment, who presumest to abolish what every one acknowledges
to be what is good for him, and aimest to make thy single opinion to have
more force than that of all the rest; and what I now do, and think to be
right, I shall not hereafter deny to be according to my own sentiments.
I have married, as thou sayest rightly, a strange woman, and thou hearest
what I do from myself as from one that is free, for truly I did not intend
to conceal myself. I also own that I sacrificed to those gods to whom you
do not think it fit to sacrifice; and I think it right to come at truth
by inquiring of many people, and not like one that lives under tyranny,
to suffer the whole hope of my life to depend upon one man; nor shall any
one find cause to rejoice who declares himself to have more authority over
my actions than myself."
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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