. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. using food. During the wholesiege, the number killed was one million one hundredthousand; that of prisoners, ninety-seven fact, the population, not of Jerusalem alone, butthat of the adjacent districts—many who had takenrefuge in the city, more who had assembled for thefeast of unleavened bread—had been shut up by thesudden formation of the siege. Yet the chief objects of their vengeance, the daunt-less Siinon, son of Gi
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. using food. During the wholesiege, the number killed was one million one hundredthousand; that of prisoners, ninety-seven fact, the population, not of Jerusalem alone, butthat of the adjacent districts—many who had takenrefuge in the city, more who had assembled for thefeast of unleavened bread—had been shut up by thesudden formation of the siege. Yet the chief objects of their vengeance, the daunt-less Siinon, son of Gioras, and John the Gischalite,still seemed to bafHe all pursuit. The Eoman soldierspenetrated into the subterranean caverns; whereverthey went they found incalculable treasures, andheaps of dead bodies—some who had perished fromhunger, others from their wounds, many by their ownhands: the close air of the vaults reeked with thepestilential efiluvia. Most recoiled from these pitsof death; the more rapacious went on, breathingdeath for the sake of plunder. At length, reducedby famine, John and his brethren came forth upon w^^^^^ pyBUC UBKKRt aso xs.*r^-. SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. 69 terms of surrender. His life was spared—a singularinstance of lenity, if indeed his conduct had been soatrocious as it is described by his rival Josephus. Hewas condemned to perpetual imprisonment, and finallysent to Italy. Many days after, towards the end of October, whenTitus had left the city, as some of the Roman soldierswere reposing amid the ruins of the temple, theywere surprised by the sudden apparition of a manin white raiment, and with a robe of purple, whoseemed to rise from the earth in silent and imposingdignity. At first they stood awe-struck and motion-less : at length they ventured to approach him; theyencircled him and demanded his name. He answered, Simon the son of Gioras; call hither your gene-ral. Terentius Rufus was speedily summoned, andto him the brave though cruel defender o
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