Flavius Josephus

And when the book of Daniel was showed him [Alexander the Great] wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he himself was the person intended.

— Flavius Josephus

Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.

— Flavius Josephus

I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee.

— Flavius Josephus

Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.

— Flavius Josephus

Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else.

— Flavius Josephus