The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . s, after a long and glorious reign, died He was the last of the true Maccab^an patriots. His AN HISTORICAL RETROSPECT. 35 Buccessors seem to have endeavoured to eclipse each otherin deeds of extravagance and cruelty; and it can profitus nothing to repeat the dreary catalogue of the crimesby which they disgiaced their glorious ancestry, andshowed themselves unworthy of the Jewish the rule of these luxurious tyrants, the spirit ofthe nation decayed ; its patriotism died out; its religiongrew cold; it was divided into c
The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . s, after a long and glorious reign, died He was the last of the true Maccab^an patriots. His AN HISTORICAL RETROSPECT. 35 Buccessors seem to have endeavoured to eclipse each otherin deeds of extravagance and cruelty; and it can profitus nothing to repeat the dreary catalogue of the crimesby which they disgiaced their glorious ancestry, andshowed themselves unworthy of the Jewish the rule of these luxurious tyrants, the spirit ofthe nation decayed ; its patriotism died out; its religiongrew cold; it was divided into contending sects and fac-tions ; and it plainly invited the doom which ere longfell upon it. In pursuit of its subtle schemes of universalconquest, Rome marched its legions into Judjea, underthe command of the illustrious Pompey. Not till theRoman eagles glittered before the walls of Jerusalem didthe old Hebrew courage awake; and then, at the lasthour, its inhabitants prepared for a desperate siege lasted three months. The battering-rams at. ROMAN BATTERING-RAM. length overthrew one of the loftiest towers, and into thebreach poured the veterans of Pompey, led by Faustus, 36 AN HISTORTCAL RETROSPECT. the son of Sulla. It was the hour, we are told, of theevening sacrifice, and while the conquerors swept throughthe blood-stained streets, the priests calmly ministered atthe altar, where many of them were cut down by theRoman swords. The city was taken, but after his victorythe Roman general displayed an unexpected left the treasures of the Temple untouched; andthough he annexed Judaea to the province of Syria, heallowed its inhabitants to worship after their own fashion. Some years of trial and trouble followed; years ofconfusion and intrigue, of discontent and insurrection,until Herod, the son of Antipater, an Idumeean noble, byan extraordinary union of subtlety and courage, inspiredby unbounded ambition, placed on liis brow the Jewishcrown, Avith the perm
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