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Ah, here we go.

τὸ βιβλίον καὶ εἰς πῦρ κατέβαλεν.

EIS PYR means "into the fire."

"And they threw the book down into the fire" is a straight translation of the Greek.

With the sentence before, for the context. It's Niese's text, from Perseus, but I haven't figured out how to copy the URL yet. Maybe this: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=J.+BJ+2.12.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0147 Thanks again. [228] Μετελάμβανεν δὲ ταύτην τὴν συμφορὰν ἄλλος...

... , means "throw down" all by itself. I can't find the Greek text for *BJ* online. Do you have the complete sentence? It may be that Whiston is filling in that detail from the Talmud but without seeing the whole Greek sentence, I don't know.

Good morning There is a very short passage in Whiston's translation of the *Wars* which mystifies me. In Wars 2.12.2 Whiston translates κατέβαλεν as "threw it into the fire". Is there any basis in the Greek for the detail about the fire, ...

... he gained who gained. The high priest routinely participated in other important sacrifices, as well, according to Josephus, Jewish War 5.5.7 §230 (Whiston translation): The high priest did also go up with them; not always indeed, but on the seventh days and new moons, and if any festivals belonging ...

... usually in fact, purported to be descendants of Aaron. Third, Josephus acknowledges this law (I daresay approvingly) in Antiquities 9.10.4 §224a (Whiston translation): Accordingly, when a remarkable day was come, and a general festival was to be celebrated, he put on the holy garment, and went ...

... all heaven is a temple, or "heaven itself" here refers just to the part that is. I would perhaps compare Josephus, Antiquities §3.6.4 (Whiston translation): However, this proportion of the measures of the tabernacle proved to be an imitation of the system of the world; for that third ...

Whiston noted a possible corruption in Ant. 12.2.3 : "Although this number one hundred and twenty drachmee [of Alexandria, or sixty Jewish shekels] be here three times repeated, and that in all Josephus's copies, Greek ...

work in progress HE 1.8.6-8: Rufinus, Eusebius, McGiffert AJ 17.168-170: Cassiodorus, Josephus, Whiston Herodem porro amarior in dies morbus urgebat, supplicia commissi dudum sceleris expetens. lento namque igni extrinsecus in superficie corporis urebatur, intrinsicus vero ...