. New Testament hours. Coin of Vespasian commemorating the conquest of Judaea. but Jerusalem had perished; the horns of the Beast,the proconsuls of the empire, had remained subordinate,and the power of the world-city, under the Flavian houseand its successors, had yet centuries to run. ]^or had iteven attained its full splendour, for its greatest glory wasto come, generations later, under the Antonines. Thereign of Christ in Jerusalem, during a thousand years,over the saints and martyrs raised from the grave tosurround Him, receded into an unknown future, and Gogand Magog remained still hostil
. New Testament hours. Coin of Vespasian commemorating the conquest of Judaea. but Jerusalem had perished; the horns of the Beast,the proconsuls of the empire, had remained subordinate,and the power of the world-city, under the Flavian houseand its successors, had yet centuries to run. ]^or had iteven attained its full splendour, for its greatest glory wasto come, generations later, under the Antonines. Thereign of Christ in Jerusalem, during a thousand years,over the saints and martyrs raised from the grave tosurround Him, receded into an unknown future, and Gogand Magog remained still hostile to the Cross. It was reckoned that over 900,000 prisoners had beentaken in Galilee and Judaea, and that over a million had 432 THE CATASTEOPHE been killed in Jerusalem and elsewhere but theirs hadbeen the happier fate. There was no prophet-poet Arch of Titus. to see Rachel, descended from the heavens, or come upfrom the grave, weeping for her children on the bare THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 433 hills of Benjamin, for their fair city had perished fromthe earth, and her land was silent and desolate ; her sonsslain or led off to shameful slavery, or to make sport inheathen amphitheatres, by mortal combat with each otheror with wild beasts; her daughters delivered over todisgrace at the hands of the soldiery, or from the stepsof the slave market. They had put away from them thethings of their peace which Jesus had offered them, andHis blood had only too truly come back on those whohad pierced Him, and on their children. The temple of Peace, built by Vespasian, and made thetreasure-house of the spoils of the Temple, was burneddown little more than a century later, under Commodus,but it is maintained that these priceless relics were savedfrom the conflagration. An unreliable tradition reportsthat the golden candlestick was lost in the T
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