The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-20. The Hebrews—Wars ot the Maccabees 51 all who dared protest. Civil war broke out in Jerusalem. Antiochus attackcfJthe city with an army. The
The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands . 1-20. The Hebrews—Wars ot the Maccabees 51 all who dared protest. Civil war broke out in Jerusalem. Antiochus attackcfJthe city with an army. The citizens, untrained and unprepared, resisted val-iantly, but in \-ain. Their walls were stormed and many thousands of them wereslain in the streets. Then began the earliest religious persecution of which we have defmiterecord (170 ). Antiochus was determined to break the religious unity ofthe Jews, that obedience to their priesthood which he regarded as a danger tohis own dominion. Throughout Syria he commanded all his subjects to do hom-age to the Greek gods. Onl}- in Judea was the royal order disobeyed. Hitherto,conquered peoples had readily bowed the knee to whatever symbol of power washeld over them, whether of sword or king or deity. Neither had it occurredto any vict6r to forbid a people to pray to whom or what they liked, so long asthey were submissive. But the deepened religious spirit of the Jews led themto refuse honor to the idols
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