. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. Souih-ii^est angle of the Haram on the site of the Temple, taken from the Gjite of the Miigarabees. 72 THE PASSION. Modern Jerusalem. crowd. There was a little bridge over the Kedroii built and kept in order at the expense ofthe High Priest. Each neve High Priest, disdaining to 7tse the old bridge, had it throivn downand a new one built at his own cost. More even than that, Simon the Just, having to sacrificetico red heifers during his term of office, would not let the second pass o


. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. Souih-ii^est angle of the Haram on the site of the Temple, taken from the Gjite of the Miigarabees. 72 THE PASSION. Modern Jerusalem. crowd. There was a little bridge over the Kedroii built and kept in order at the expense ofthe High Priest. Each neve High Priest, disdaining to 7tse the old bridge, had it throivn downand a new one built at his own cost. More even than that, Simon the Just, having to sacrificetico red heifers during his term of office, would not let the second pass over the bridge whichhad served for the first, but considered it necessary to have a new bridge built, so that the victimmight cross by way ofaperfectly untrodden track. It was necessary, moreover, to have a passagein the middle of the bridge reserved for the red heifer and still more for the scape-goat, to protectthem from the attacks of the would come and piill the beard of the goat orotherwise torment it to make it go on faster, crying : << Get along with you! be off and take oursinsawayl * The bridge was of wood painted red, the colour red being with the Jeivs emblem-atical of sin. The scape-goat


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