. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. SCENES IN THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEMBY THE ROMANS, A. D., 73. OPENING OF THE SIEGE. Quite exhausted as tlie Jews liad already been bydissensions, the last winter of Jerusalem passed awayin the same ferocious ci\dl contests; her streets ranwith the blood of her own children; and, instead oforganizing a regular defence against the approachingenemy, each faction was strengthening its own positionagainst the unintermitting assaults of its a
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. SCENES IN THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEMBY THE ROMANS, A. D., 73. OPENING OF THE SIEGE. Quite exhausted as tlie Jews liad already been bydissensions, the last winter of Jerusalem passed awayin the same ferocious ci\dl contests; her streets ranwith the blood of her own children; and, instead oforganizing a regular defence against the approachingenemy, each faction was strengthening its own positionagainst the unintermitting assaults of its to Josephus, the Jewish historian, the citywas now divided into three distinct garrisons, at fierce(24). CHRIST PREDICTINa THE DESTRUCTION OF THETEMPLE. THE MEWPUBLIC LIB .OH, LENOX ^UiiN MOUNaATiONSK L ^ SIEGE OP JERUSALEM. 27 and implacable hostility witli each other. Eleazar theson of Simon, the man who was the first cause of thewar, by persuading the people to reject the ofierings otthe Roman emperors, and who afterwards had set him-self at the head of the Zealots, and seized the temple,saw, with deep and rankling jealousy, the superioritj^ as-sumed by John of Gischala. He pretended righteousindignation at his sanguinary proceedings, and, atlength, with several other men of influence, Judas theson of Hilkiah, Simon the son of Ezron, and Hezekiahthe son of Chobar, he openly seceded from the greatband of Zealots who remained true to John, and seizedthe inner court of the temple. And now the arms ofeavage men, reeking with the blood of their fellow-citizens, were seen to rest upon the gates and walls ofthe Holy of Holies; the sacred songs of the Levitesgave place to the ribald jes
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