The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . h thus commended, is accused of having persecuted the Chris-tians, and to have presided as the judge of the Roman tribunal that sentencedIgnatius to martyrdom. Trajans correspondence with the younger Pliny, Gov-ernor of Bithynia and Pontus, with regard to the treatment of the Christians, dis-plays, however, a humanity and justice unusual in that age. But the hatred of the Jews to the Romans had by Trajans reign grown sointenso that it broke out in every direction. At Cyrene in Africa, Egypt, AsiaMinor, and Cyprus the Jews
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . h thus commended, is accused of having persecuted the Chris-tians, and to have presided as the judge of the Roman tribunal that sentencedIgnatius to martyrdom. Trajans correspondence with the younger Pliny, Gov-ernor of Bithynia and Pontus, with regard to the treatment of the Christians, dis-plays, however, a humanity and justice unusual in that age. But the hatred of the Jews to the Romans had by Trajans reign grown sointenso that it broke out in every direction. At Cyrene in Africa, Egypt, AsiaMinor, and Cyprus the Jews rose. Trajan was then engaged in the great Parthianexpedition, but the Romans, notwithstanding, suppressed the rebellion, A. In the same spirit of fury with which the Jews had broken out into openrevolt against the Romans, were the outbreaks put down and revenged: Cir-cumcision, the reading of the Law, and the observance of the Sabbath werestrictly forbidden. The same year Trajan died, and Hadrian ascended the throne.(See illustrations facing pages , 561.). Coin of Cyrene. Head of Jupiter Amnion and the Silphium plant. JOEL—AMOS. 539 Joel was held in great reverence Dy the ancient Jews, and is quotedby both Peter and Paul, Acts i.: Rom. x. 13. 79. There are different views, it may be added, on themeaning of the description given in chaps, i-ii. 12 Some regard the whole as literal, and apply it either to the famino ?and drought, of which Amos speaks, iv. 7, 8; or to the6even years of famine, that desolated Judsea in the days of ^p18 °fJoram, 2 Kings viii. 1-3. Others regard the description asfigurative, and apply it to the invasion by Tiglath-Pileser, Shalmaneser,Sennacherib, and Nebuchadnezzar, or to the subjugation of the countryby Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. Others, as Olshausen,combine these views, and deem it a description of impending calamitygenerally, both literal and figurative. Locust is certainly used withthis double reference in Scripture (
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