Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times . ^ success-fid. § 1 Kings viii., 3-9. || Luke ii., 37. t Exod. xxiii., 14-17. ** Luke ii., 22. Apr., 31.] THE TEMPLE. 115. THE MOSQUE OF OMAR. the Temple was the Jewish capitol as well as the JewishChurch. Wherever he might be, the devout Jew knelt to-ward this temple* as he offered his daily devotions to Jehovah* 1 Kings viii., 30, 33, 38, 48 ; Ban. \\., 10. H 116 THE REFINERS FIRE. [Chap. IX. who, in his
Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times . ^ success-fid. § 1 Kings viii., 3-9. || Luke ii., 37. t Exod. xxiii., 14-17. ** Luke ii., 22. Apr., 31.] THE TEMPLE. 115. THE MOSQUE OF OMAR. the Temple was the Jewish capitol as well as the JewishChurch. Wherever he might be, the devout Jew knelt to-ward this temple* as he offered his daily devotions to Jehovah* 1 Kings viii., 30, 33, 38, 48 ; Ban. \\., 10. H 116 THE REFINERS FIRE. [Chap. IX. who, in his imagination, dwelt between the cherubims.* --Theoverthrow of the Temj^le was to him like the dethronementof God. Its restoration was the revival of his religion andhis nationality. Destroyed in the Babylonish incursion un-der Nebuchadnezzar, it had been rebuilt by Zerubbabel underCyrus. Pillaged, profaned, polluted by the heathen foes whoin the long night of anarchy successively occupied Jerusalem,Herod found it in a state of ruin sadly typical of the desola-tion of that religious system of which it was the was fond of architcTctural display. He was ambitious tofound a dynasty which should equal in splendor that of Sol-omon. He was desirous to ingratiate himself with the Jew-ish people. He the
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