. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. sacred Scriptures into Greek. Thistranslation is the celebrated one called the Septuagint,277 In 170 , Jason, the brother of the high-priest, on falsereports of the death of Antiochus Epiphanes, who at thistime held the Jews in subjection, raised great disturbancesin Jerusalem, with a view to secure the
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. sacred Scriptures into Greek. Thistranslation is the celebrated one called the Septuagint,277 In 170 , Jason, the brother of the high-priest, on falsereports of the death of Antiochus Epiphanes, who at thistime held the Jews in subjection, raised great disturbancesin Jerusalem, with a view to secure the , irritated by the frequent revolts of the Jews,marched to Jerusalem, slew 80,000 people, took 40,000 cap-tives, and then entered the temple and plundered the treas-ures. This prince having commanded the Jews to observethe rites of the heathen, and to eat of the sacrifices, some ofthe more conscientious among them chose rather to sufferdeath. The same year the kings commissioner, who hadbeen intrusted with this iniquitous business, was killed byMatathias and his fiYQ sons, who thereupon fled into thewilderness. This was the commencement of that resistanceagainst the Syrian power, under the Maccabees, which ter-minated in the independence of the CHAPTER XILTHE JEWS. The Maccabees Resist the Syrians—Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem—Alt*cles of the Jewish Creed—Prayers in the Byni THE MACCABEES RESIST THE SYRIANS. JUDAS MACCABEUS, the bravest of the sons of Mate-thias, having been chosen by the Jews for their princeand governor, made war against Antiochus, and <I«f< ,several of his generals. The monarch, hearing of fche defeatof his troops in Judea, took an oatli that he would deetthe whole nation. As he hastened to Jerusalem, he HI Ihis chariot, and died miserably. In a battle with a fof one of his successors, Judas was killed. Be was succeededby his brother Jonathan, who, after many signal servirendered to his country, was basely murdered by Tryphon,
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