. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . wish nation again anindependent, though not a freepeople. Whatever, to his sus-picious nature, seemed to standin the way of this design, noscruple prevented him from re-moving at whatever cost. Aterrible distemper, which final-ly brought his wretched life toa yet more wretched end, in-creased toward its close his un-reasonable suspicions, and ag-gravated the asperities of histemper. Every one seemed, tohis jealous dis
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . wish nation again anindependent, though not a freepeople. Whatever, to his sus-picious nature, seemed to standin the way of this design, noscruple prevented him from re-moving at whatever cost. Aterrible distemper, which final-ly brought his wretched life toa yet more wretched end, in-creased toward its close his un-reasonable suspicions, and ag-gravated the asperities of histemper. Every one seemed, tohis jealous disposition, to beconspiring against his succession, his wifes grand-father, his wife herself, andthree of his own sons, wereslain by his command—sacri-fices to his insane a monarch could ill brooka rival King of the Jews. That,when he found himself mockedby the wise men, his rage, passedall bounds, is consonant with all we knowof his character. His inhuman order for themassacre of the infant children of Bethle-hem is quite in keeping with the crueltiesof the age, the absolute authority he pos- THE HOLT LAKB under THE MACCABEES ami HEROD THE GREAT.
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