Note 48 — Chapter II · Hellenistic Influence upon the Jews of Palestine
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Quod omn. prob., ii. 457. Josephus (Bell. Jud., II, viii. 4) says, on the other hand, that “they have no one certain city, but many of them dwell in every city”; but even if they did live in cities in the time of Josephus, they kept entirely to themselves, for he says elsewhere of them that “as they live by themselves they minister one to another” (Antiq., XVIII, i. 5).