The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . its feet has possessed a pre-eminent force which has made its history the Jew has wrought is a marvel among mar-vels. It has been no strange thing upon the earth for TITUS OjV the ACr/NS OF ZION. I 29 beings in human guise to be made gods. Hercules,Odin, Alexander, Caesar, and many another havebeen raised to the heavens and worshipped. Only,however, in the case of this first-born child of aJewish mother has the apotheosis endured.* Hestands in this exaltation, not in the wild fancy ofbarbarians, but in the trained and cool judgment
The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . its feet has possessed a pre-eminent force which has made its history the Jew has wrought is a marvel among mar-vels. It has been no strange thing upon the earth for TITUS OjV the ACr/NS OF ZION. I 29 beings in human guise to be made gods. Hercules,Odin, Alexander, Caesar, and many another havebeen raised to the heavens and worshipped. Only,however, in the case of this first-born child of aJewish mother has the apotheosis endured.* Hestands in this exaltation, not in the wild fancy ofbarbarians, but in the trained and cool judgment ofthe races whose brain and vigor have made themforemost among men. These have felt that he spokeas never man spoke, and was the embodiment of hisown gospel of love in his life and in his death. Whowill say that his name is not above every name ? Ifwe refuse, as some men do, to ascribe to him a super-human character, then how astonishing the miracle,that a Hebrew peasant has been able to so influencethe destinies of mankind ! *Disraeli: PART MEDLi:VAL HUMILIATION. CHAPTER IX. now THE RABBIS WROUGHT THE TALMUD. The year 70 of our era brought the dreadfultragedy of the destruction of Jerusalem. In thenext generation the champion Bar Cocheba, whommany Jews believed to be the Messiah, headed arevolt which was soon put down by the EmperorHadrian. The taking of his stronghold, Bethar, wasthe coup de grace; Palestine was utterly devastated ;even the olive-trees had disappeared ; the land wasfull of graves, the markets with slaves ; the townswere given over to wolves and hyenas. Even thename of Jerusalem was lost ; a pagan city, AeliaCapitolina, rose upon its site ; a temple of Jupiterstood upon Mt. Zion, about which was gathered apopulation of Roman veterans, of Greeks, Phoeni-cians, and Syrians. So long as the Roman empireendured, no Jew could enter the city under pain ofdeath. Long before these events, the Jews, as we haveseen, had begun to wander. The ten tribes th
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