. New Testament hours. part of it, the holy furniture, and the adornmentsand vessels of the Temple; the table of shewbread, theseven-branched candlestick, and the sacred rolls of theLaw, as we see them still, carved on the triumphalarch. Behind this spoil of the sanctuary, Eoman youthsbore proudly the image of the god of Victory, who, asthey fancied, had so gloriously honoured the Eoman arms,and then, amidst a blaze of military splendour, cameTitus. The pageant stopped at the temple of Jupiter THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 431 Capitolinus till word came that sentence had been carriedout on Simon ben G
. New Testament hours. part of it, the holy furniture, and the adornmentsand vessels of the Temple; the table of shewbread, theseven-branched candlestick, and the sacred rolls of theLaw, as we see them still, carved on the triumphalarch. Behind this spoil of the sanctuary, Eoman youthsbore proudly the image of the god of Victory, who, asthey fancied, had so gloriously honoured the Eoman arms,and then, amidst a blaze of military splendour, cameTitus. The pageant stopped at the temple of Jupiter THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 431 Capitolinus till word came that sentence had been carriedout on Simon ben Gioras. And thus, with immeasurablepomp and rejoicing of the heathen, were celebrated thefuneral rites of the Jewish State. The spoil of theTemple was, at a later time, placed by Vespasian in atemple built by him to Peace; the curtain that had hungbefore the Holy of Holies, and the rolls of the Law takenfrom that sacred chamber, being, however, brought toVespasians palace. So passed away the dream of centuries. Not Eome. 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 now.
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