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... Roman con- querors , they say , raised up a statue of Venus in this sacred place , intending to destroy all memory of it . I don't think the heathen was as criminal as the Chris- tian is now . To deny and disbelieve is not so bad as to ...
... Roman con- querors , they say , raised up a statue of Venus in this sacred place , intending to destroy all memory of it . I don't think the heathen was as criminal as the Chris- tian is now . To deny and disbelieve is not so bad as to ...
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... Romans receive a check . - A council of war called . The whole City surrounded by a wall . - The famine at this period described . - The excessive cruelty of the soldiers towards the Jewish deserters . - Fortifications raised , and the ...
... Romans receive a check . - A council of war called . The whole City surrounded by a wall . - The famine at this period described . - The excessive cruelty of the soldiers towards the Jewish deserters . - Fortifications raised , and the ...
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... Romans call a council of war . - The last attack upon the Temple succeeds . The surrounding buildings are set on fire . - Titus enters the Temple . - The Temple is burnt , and a dreadful carnage of the Jews ensues . - Six thousand ...
... Romans call a council of war . - The last attack upon the Temple succeeds . The surrounding buildings are set on fire . - Titus enters the Temple . - The Temple is burnt , and a dreadful carnage of the Jews ensues . - Six thousand ...
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... Romans , he headed a party and fought for some considerable time against them , but with such ill success , as ... Roman power ; by the aid of pretended inspiration , so ingratiated himself with Vespasian , as to gain the good opinion ...
... Romans , he headed a party and fought for some considerable time against them , but with such ill success , as ... Roman power ; by the aid of pretended inspiration , so ingratiated himself with Vespasian , as to gain the good opinion ...
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... Romans , Vespasian and Titus ordered me to be kept " under a guard , but commanded that I should attend " them continually . At first I was in bonds ; after- " wards I was set at liberty , and was sent to accom- pany Titus when he came ...
... Romans , Vespasian and Titus ordered me to be kept " under a guard , but commanded that I should attend " them continually . At first I was in bonds ; after- " wards I was set at liberty , and was sent to accom- pany Titus when he came ...
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Page 146 - Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 143 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page ii - Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, "How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?" And he said unto me, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Page 100 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Page 82 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law ; and a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 136 - Jesus, turning unto them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 52 - And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth ; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 6 - And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad ; for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him ; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
Page 6 - For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.