These men agree in all other things with the Pharisaic notions; but they have an inviolable attachment to liberty, and say that God is to be their only Ruler and Lord. They also do not value dying any kinds of death, nor indeed do they heed the deaths of their relations and friends, nor can any such fear make them call any man lord.
Flavius Josephus on the Galilean, or “fourth sect of Jewish philosophy,” Antiquities of the Jews, Book XVIII, Chapter One.
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