The Holy Land and the Bible; . ews, accepted him as the Mes-siah, and became his armor-bearer. The time predicted by Haggaiwas supposed to have come, when Jehovah would shake the heavensand the earth, and overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and destroy thestrenoth of the kinodoms of the heathen. ^ Barcochba was to be theRedeemer of Israel, who should free its sons from the bondage ofRome. Insurrection bioke out at once. The new Messiah must havebeen a fierce fanatic, for he demanded that everyone who wished tofollow him should submit to have one of his fingers chopped off as atest of his resolut
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ews, accepted him as the Mes-siah, and became his armor-bearer. The time predicted by Haggaiwas supposed to have come, when Jehovah would shake the heavensand the earth, and overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and destroy thestrenoth of the kinodoms of the heathen. ^ Barcochba was to be theRedeemer of Israel, who should free its sons from the bondage ofRome. Insurrection bioke out at once. The new Messiah must havebeen a fierce fanatic, for he demanded that everyone who wished tofollow him should submit to have one of his fingers chopped off as atest of his resolution; that circumcision should be repeated on all whohad imperfectly obeyed the rite, and that the Jewish towns should befortified—the one reasonable measure of the three! According to theRabbis, 200,000 men, each with a finger hewn off, followed him, and asmany more, unwilling to endure this test, agreed that they would dragup by the roots a cedar of Lebanon as a pledge of their spirit. Fifty 1 Num. xxiv. 17. 2 Hagg. ii. On tbe Beach at Csesarea. (See page 45.) ^•1 THE PHILISTINE PLAIN AND SAMSONS COUNTRY. 63 strong places, and nearly 1,000 villages, were taken from the Romans,and it took three years and a half for Hadrian to quell the terrible ris-in-. Bether, the chief fortress of the revolted Hebrews, held out for awhole year. The number who perished was reckoned at half a mill-ion, and the exasperation at the failure of the movement was so greatthat Barcochbas name—the Son of a Star—was changed by thesurvivors to Bar Cosiba— the Son of a Lie. ^ This terrible narrative shows very forcibly the ideas of the Messiahprevalent in the days of Christ. It was to make Him sucli a king asBarcochba that the multitude wished to lay liokl on the Saviour andput Him at their head,- after the miracle of the Loaves and Fishes atthe head of the Lake of Galilee, and it was because He would not leada great rising against Rome that His countrymen finally rejected Him. Jamnia is on
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