The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . t to thee of God? he ex-claimed. Thou shalt be emperor—thou and thyson after thee. Bind me, therefore, and keep me, tosee whether my words are true or no. The flatter-in-g prophecy brought for Josephus a respite, for hewas held in honor, though not yet relieved of subjugation of Galilee followed, after the fallof Jotapata, with all the terrible circumstances ofancient warfare. Jerusalem for a time was spared,its strength making it formidable. At Rome, more-over, the emperor died, and the purple, passingto short-lived successors, fell
The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . t to thee of God? he ex-claimed. Thou shalt be emperor—thou and thyson after thee. Bind me, therefore, and keep me, tosee whether my words are true or no. The flatter-in-g prophecy brought for Josephus a respite, for hewas held in honor, though not yet relieved of subjugation of Galilee followed, after the fallof Jotapata, with all the terrible circumstances ofancient warfare. Jerusalem for a time was spared,its strength making it formidable. At Rome, more-over, the emperor died, and the purple, passingto short-lived successors, fell at last, according to theprophecy of Josephus, upon Vespasian, who cut thechains from the limbs of the captive, in sign that alldishonor was removed, and assigned to his son Titusthe task, so long deferred, of humbling the mightytowers of Mount Zion. The capture of Jerusalem by Titus is one of themost memorable events in the history of caused the expulsion of an entire race from itshome. The Roman valor, skill, and persistence were. I02 THE STORY OF THE JEWS. never more conspicuously displayed. No moredesperate resistance was ev^er opposed to the eagle-emblemed mistress of the ancient world. There isno event of ancient history whose details are moreminutely known. The circumstances in all theirappalling features are given to us by the eye-witnessJosephus, so that we know them as vividly as we dothe events of the career of Grant. To understandfully the story of the siege, we must first look withsome care at the city. The site on which Jerusalem stands is bounded onthree sides by deep gorges. Of these, one on theeast, called anciently Kidron. or the Valley ofJehosaphat, runs north and south ; another tothe west, called Hinnom, running at first parallelto Kidron, turns at last eastward—the bottoms ofthe two gorges meeting at a point full five hundredfeet below the hills which they cut. The ravinesform thus a rough parallelogram, with the northwestside left open. Th
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