The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . voice against the bride-grooms and the brides, and a voice against the wholepeople! This was his cry, as he traversed the streetsand lanes of the city, both by day and night. Certain oftlie most eminent of the inhabitants of Jerusalem wereoffended at this dismal denmiciation, and causing the un-welcome prophet to be arrested, giive him a great numberof stripes. Yet did he not attempt to defend or excusehimself, but having undergone his punishment without amurmur, recommenced his warning as before. There-upon the rulers, supposing, as the
The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . voice against the bride-grooms and the brides, and a voice against the wholepeople! This was his cry, as he traversed the streetsand lanes of the city, both by day and night. Certain oftlie most eminent of the inhabitants of Jerusalem wereoffended at this dismal denmiciation, and causing the un-welcome prophet to be arrested, giive him a great numberof stripes. Yet did he not attempt to defend or excusehimself, but having undergone his punishment without amurmur, recommenced his warning as before. There-upon the rulers, supposing, as the case proved to be,that the man was under the influence of a kind of divinefury, caused him to be brought before the Roman pro-curator, by whose order he was whipped till his boneswere bare. Even then he offered up no supplication formercy, nor shed any tears, but each time the scourgedescended on his quivering flesh, exclaimed,— Woe, woeunto Jerusalem! And when Albinus, who was thenprocurator, asked him who he was, and whence he came. THE SIEQE. b7. THE SON Oh AX AN AS. and why he uttered these words, he answered notat all, but still continued his melancholy foreboding. 88 THE SIEGE. SO tliat Albiiius took liim to be a madman, and letliim go. Day after day, and ever loudest at the different festi-vals, the man wandered to and fro in Jerusalem, withthis burden still upon his tongue ; nor did he cease until,after seven years and five months of prophecy, he saw itfulfilled in the appearance of the Roman legions beforethe city. Then, as he went round upon the outer ram-part, he cried, with his utmost force,— Woe, woe tothe city again, and to the people, and to the holy house ! And just as he added at the last, Woe, woe to myselfalso! a stone, hurled from one of the Roman engines,smote him, and slew him on the spot—the death of theprophet seeming to confirm his oft-repeated prophecy.* * The reader may be interested in seeing how this remarkable episode istreated by a poet of s
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