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Jerusalem, the City of Herod and Saladin, by W. Besant and E.h. Palmer
Jerusalem the City of Herod and Saladin by W Besant and Eh Palmer Author:Walter Besant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. FKOM TITUS TO OMAK. " Wild Hours, that fly with hope and fear, If all your office had to do With old results that look like new, If this were all your mission here, " To draw, to sheathe a useless sword, To fool the crowd with glorious lies, To cleave a creed in sects and cries, To change the bearing of a word. " Why then my scorn might well descend On you and yours. I see in part That all, as in some piece of art, Is toil co-operant to an end." In Memorianit . its Temple destroyed, its people killed, led captive, or dispersed, Jerusalem - must have presented, for the next fifty years, at least, a dreary and desolate appearance. At first its only inhabitants were the Eoman garrison, but gradually the Jews came dropping in, at first, we may suppose, on sufferance and good behaviour. When the Christians returned is not certain. Eusebius says that directly after the destruction of Jerusalem, they assembled together and chose Simeon as their bishop; but he does not say that they gathered together in Jerusalem. All the traditionsrepresent them as returning very soon after the siege. As for the Jews, the destruction of the Temple -- that symbol of the law -- only made them more scrupulous in their obedience to the Law. The great school of Gamaliel was set up at Jabneh, where lectures were delivered on all the minutiae of Eabbinical teaching, and the Jews were instructed how to win the favour of Jehovah by carrying out to its last letter the smallest details of the Law. And because this, minute as it was, did not comprehend all the details of life, there arose a caste, ...« less