The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . e spectators soonabated when they saw, beneath the royal or priestly robes, the squalidfeatures of their victim. Detected by a Roman officer, he was led bound toTitus.—{Merivale, after Josephus.) THE DOWNFALL OF THE HOLY CITY. 113 has undergone many vicissitudes—though it has twelvetimes been assaulted by hostile armies — though ithas once been the seat of a Christian kingdom—andthougli it is still holy in the eyes of thousands and tensof thousands, it has never again become the capital of aJewish king. It belonged, with all its wealth, a
The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . e spectators soonabated when they saw, beneath the royal or priestly robes, the squalidfeatures of their victim. Detected by a Roman officer, he was led bound toTitus.—{Merivale, after Josephus.) THE DOWNFALL OF THE HOLY CITY. 113 has undergone many vicissitudes—though it has twelvetimes been assaulted by hostile armies — though ithas once been the seat of a Christian kingdom—andthougli it is still holy in the eyes of thousands and tensof thousands, it has never again become the capital of aJewish king. It belonged, with all its wealth, andglory, and shame, and sin, to a past dispensation; and itswork done, it fell. Who can say if ever it shall be re-stored to anything of its former power ? Who can dareto conjecture what may be its future fortunes ? Enoughfor us to know that every Christian must recognize in itsawful catastrophe the fulfilment of prophecy, and a signalinstance of the retribution which sooner or later overtakestlie evil-doer (Matt. xxiv. 1-28; Tsa, iii. 8, 11).. %:%. v259) ROMAN V CONQUEST OF iiTTDMk. Oer Judahs land thy thunders broke, 0 Lonl! The chariots rattled oer her sunken gate,FTer sons were wasted by the Roman sword. Even her foes wept to see her fallen state;And heaps her ivory palaces became,Her princes wore the captives garb of temple sank amid the smouldering flame. For thou didst ride the tempest-cloud of fate. 1) MiLMAN
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