. 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. ew again into the Antonia, in-tending the next morning to make a general quiet summer evening came on ; the setting sunshone for the last time on the snow-white walls andglistening pinnacles of the temple roof. Titus hadretired to rest, when, suddenly, a wild and terriblecry was heard, and a man came rushing in, announc-ing that the temple was on fire. Some of the besieged,notwithstanding their repulse in the morning, ha
. 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. ew again into the Antonia, in-tending the next morning to make a general quiet summer evening came on ; the setting sunshone for the last time on the snow-white walls andglistening pinnacles of the temple roof. Titus hadretired to rest, when, suddenly, a wild and terriblecry was heard, and a man came rushing in, announc-ing that the temple was on fire. Some of the besieged,notwithstanding their repulse in the morning, had sal-lied out to attack the men who were busily employedin extinguishing the fires about the cloisters. TheRomans not merely drove them back, but, enteringthe sacred space with them, forced their way tothe door of the templo. A soldier, without orders,mounting on the shoulders of one of his comrades,threw a blazing brand into a gilded small door on thenorth side of the chambers, in the outer building orporch. The flames sprang up at once. The Jewsuttered one simultaneous shriek, and grasped their TBIE ^EW ^^^^ \r UBRART PUB I ,1d^n foundations ^As, iRs, :1. ROMAN SOLDIER SETTING FIRE TO THE TEMPLE. SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. 53 swords, witli a furious determination of revenging andperishing in the ruins of the temple. Titus rusheddown with the utmost speed: he shouted: he madesigns to his soldiers to quench the fire : his voicewas drowned and his signs unnoticed in the blind con-fusion: the legionaries either could not or would nothear; thej rushed on, trampling each other down intheir furious haste, or, stumbling over the crumblingruins, perished with the enemy: each exhorted theother, and each hurled his blazing brand into the innerpart of the edifice, and then hurried to his work ofcarnage. The unarmed and defenceless people wereslain in thousands ; they lay heaped, like sacrifices,round the altar: the steps of the temple ran withstreams of blood, which washed down the bodies that
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