History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . essiah.^ The .See vol. iii. p. 624 sq., in what a state of oxpectatioii this people was. It is the mentalcondition of our Al>i:erian Arabs. There is the same contempt for a higher civilization whiclithey do not comprehend, and for laws purely rational, which seem to them miserable by theside of their civil and religious law revealed by God himself, and the same tenacious hope inmessiahs or maraVjout deliverers. See also vol. iv. p. 181. VOL. TV. SS 618 THE CJESARS AND THE FLAVII, 14 TO 96 Chri
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . essiah.^ The .See vol. iii. p. 624 sq., in what a state of oxpectatioii this people was. It is the mentalcondition of our Al>i:erian Arabs. There is the same contempt for a higher civilization whiclithey do not comprehend, and for laws purely rational, which seem to them miserable by theside of their civil and religious law revealed by God himself, and the same tenacious hope inmessiahs or maraVjout deliverers. See also vol. iv. p. 181. VOL. TV. SS 618 THE CJESARS AND THE FLAVII, 14 TO 96 Christians told them indeed that the Messiah had come, that hiskingdom had begun, and that his law had been carried even intothe court of Xero. In the sacred Aictim fastened to the cross ofGolgotha they refused to see the Saviour who was to make themrule over the world, and they waited still, listening to every voicethat arose, following whoever said to them, Come and see. Xowhere, says the historian Josej^hus, an eye-witness of thesufferings he recounts, nowhere did impostors have so fine an. !Mnunt (Terizini. opportunity ; whatever they promised was believed. They sharedthe country with the robber chiefs. Impious wretches, deceivingthe people under false pretence of religion, led them into solitudeswhere they said God would make manifest by sure signs that hewould free the race of Abraham from servitude. An Egyptianfalse prophet succeeded so well in seducing the people that heassembled nearly 30,000 men on the Mount of Olives. At hisvoice the walls of Jerusalem were to crumble and the Eomans taketo flight. ^ Another promised that they should be saved and holl. ii. Ilis flock was dispersed ; many perislied. but he escaped, and it is notknown wliat became of bini. This is why the tribune asked S. Paul wlicn. some time after,the Jews brought the Apostle to him that lie miglit condemn him : • Art thou not then that Bistorrof Bjom«
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