The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . I. THE CITY. .^^. ET the reader carry back his imagina-tion to a time immediately precedingour Saviours death ; to the day when,seated on the green slope of the Mount9/^>^^^r<-^/ of Olives, with his apostles gatheredaround him, the Author of our Faith looked down uponthe great Jewish metropolis— the Holy City —glow-ing in the gold and purple of the sunset. It was evening, says Dean Milman, and the wholeirregular line of the famous capital, as it soared from thedeep valleys encircling it on three of its sides, might beclearly traced.

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The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . I. THE CITY. .^^. ET the reader carry back his imagina-tion to a time immediately precedingour Saviours death ; to the day when,seated on the green slope of the Mount9/^>^^^r<-^/ of Olives, with his apostles gatheredaround him, the Author of our Faith looked down uponthe great Jewish metropolis— the Holy City —glow-ing in the gold and purple of the sunset. It was evening, says Dean Milman, and the wholeirregular line of the famous capital, as it soared from thedeep valleys encircling it on three of its sides, might beclearly traced. Behind the western hills slow sank thesetting sun —the significant emblem of the greatFountain of moral light, to which Jesus and his faithhave been perpetually compared —his last gleams of gloryresting on the castled height of Mount Zion—on themagnificent palace of Herod the King—on the square 12 THE CITY,

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