. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. ^anut)ixl5s ^VNTHpACE\ S\ C Y T\ H J A \F1> aS^0^6 v\V^ ifio \V a O T-fess^nipi & :alus< I* A^e ^Ppergamps ^ .4 ;gklopol^s° Y 0A*%* V-^^^0 NW^1. \s* *a^ ^-£aM C^BHT3S vCYRENAICA ^ A THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION. 281 Ccele-Syria, which countries he erected into a Romanprovince under the name of Syria (64 ). Still pushing southward, the conqueror entered Palestine,and after a short siege of Jerusalem, by taking advantageof the scruples of the Jews in regard to fighting on theSabbath day, captured the city (63 )

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. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. ^anut)ixl5s ^VNTHpACE\ S\ C Y T\ H J A \F1> aS^0^6 v\V^ ifio \V a O T-fess^nipi & :alus< I* A^e ^Ppergamps ^ .4 ;gklopol^s° Y 0A*%* V-^^^0 NW^1. \s* *a^ ^-£aM C^BHT3S vCYRENAICA ^ A THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION. 281 Ccele-Syria, which countries he erected into a Romanprovince under the name of Syria (64 ). Still pushing southward, the conqueror entered Palestine,and after a short siege of Jerusalem, by taking advantageof the scruples of the Jews in regard to fighting on theSabbath day, captured the city (63 ). It was at thistime that Pompey insisted, in spite of the protestations ofthe high priest, upon entering the Holy of Holies of theHebrew temple. Pushing aside the curtain in front of thejealously guarded apartment, he was astonished to findnothing but a dark and vacant chamber, without even astatue of the god to whom the shrine was dedicated, —nothing but a little chest (the Ark of the Covenant) con-taining some sacred relics. The Romans here for the first time came in direct con-tact with a people whose ideas of God and of life they werewholly incapable of understanding, but who neverthelesswere destined to ex

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