The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . Syrian AN HISTORICAL RETROSPECT. 31 by storm ; slaying forty thousand of its inhabitants, with-out distinction of age or sex, and selling as many moreinto slavery. Entering the Temple, he carried off all itstreasures, and the golden candlestick, the altar of incense,the table of shew-bread, and the sacred vessels: on the. TABLE OF SHEW-BREAD. altar of burnt-offering he sacrificed a sow, polluting everypart of the Sanctuary with its blood, and defiling theHoly of Holies with filth. Even this vengeance did nut satisfy him, and, twoyears lat
The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . Syrian AN HISTORICAL RETROSPECT. 31 by storm ; slaying forty thousand of its inhabitants, with-out distinction of age or sex, and selling as many moreinto slavery. Entering the Temple, he carried off all itstreasures, and the golden candlestick, the altar of incense,the table of shew-bread, and the sacred vessels: on the. TABLE OF SHEW-BREAD. altar of burnt-offering he sacrificed a sow, polluting everypart of the Sanctuary with its blood, and defiling theHoly of Holies with filth. Even this vengeance did nut satisfy him, and, twoyears later, he resolved upon the absolute extirpation ofthe Hebrew race, unless all its members accepted theGrreek idol-worship. He chose for his lieutenant oneApoUonius, who, craftily profiting by the Jewish reve-rence for the Sabbath, surprised Jerusalem while its popu-lation were at the Temple and in the synagogues, and put 32 AN HISTORICAL RETROSPECT. every male inhabitant to the sword.* The women andchildren were reserved for slavery ; the houses were plun-dered and burned ; and a lofty tower was reared on thesummit of Mount Zion to command the courts of theTemple and the ruined city. The Temple was dedicatedto the Olympian Jove, and the foullest orgies desecratedits sacred places. Throughout all Judaea a reign ofterror prevailed, and the most ferocious devices wereadopte
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