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Then did Samuel the prophet call another assembly also, and said
to them," I solemnly adjure you by God Almighty, who brought those
excellent brethren, I mean Moses and Aaron, into the world, and delivered
our fathers from the Egyptians, and from the slavery. they endured under
them, that you will not speak what you say to gratify me, nor suppress
any thing out of fear of me, nor be overborne by any other passion, but
say, What have I ever done that was cruel or unjust? or what have I done
out of lucre or covetousness, or to gratify others? Bear witness against
me, if I have taken an ox or a sheep, or any such thing, which yet when
they are taken to support men, it is esteemed blameless; or have I taken
an ass for mine own use of any one to his grief? - lay some one such crime
to my charge, now we are in your king's presence." But they cried
out, that no such thing had been done by him, but that he had presided
over the nation after a holy and righteous manner.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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