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M.Besant E.Walter
Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin

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M.Besant E.Walter
Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin
page 53



CHAPTER III. FKOJI TITUS TO OMAR. " Wild Hours, that fly with hope aud 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 Memoriam. 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 ita only inhabitants were the Roman 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. AH the traditions


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