Salathiel: A Story of the Past, the Present, and the Future, Volume 3Henry Colburn, 1828 - Wandering Jew |
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Page 285 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people!
Page 159 - Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...
Page 178 - The universal conqueror died a slave, by the hands of a slave ! Crassus came at the head of the legions ; he plundered the sacred vessels of the sanctuary. Vengeance followed him, and he was cursed by the curse of God. Where are the bones of the robber and his host ? Go, tear them from the jaws of the lion and the wolf of Parthia, — their fitting tomb ! ' " You, too, son of Vespasian, may be commissioned for the punishment of a stiff-necked and rebellious people.
Page 178 - ... stiff-necked and rebellious people. You may scourge our naked vice by the force of arms ; and then you may return to your own land exulting in the conquest of the fiercest enemy of Rome. But shall you escape the common fate of the instrument of evil ? -•-shall you see a peaceful old age ?—shall a...
Page 290 - Temple, of the building raised by the wisest of men, and consecrated by the visible glory. All Jerusalem saw the image; and the shout that in the midst of their despair ascended from its thousands and tens of thousands, told what proud remembrances were there. But a hymn was heard, that might have hushed the world beside.
Page 158 - But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Page 289 - We howled to the caverns to hide us ; we plunged into the sepulchres to escape the wrath that consumed the living ; we would have buried ourselves under the mountains ! I knew the cause, the unspeakable cause ; and knew that the last hour of crime was at hand. A few fugitives, astonished to see one man among them not sunk into the lowest feebleness of fear, came...
Page 287 - Woe, to myself!" stood. I heard the rush of the stone. It smote Sabat and his bride into atoms! The fall of our illustrious and unhappy city was supernatural. The destruction of the conquered was against the first principles of Roman polity; and, to the last hour of our national existence, Rome held out offers of peace, and lamented our frantic determination to be undone. But the decree was gone forth from a mightier throne. During the latter days of the siege, a hostility, to which that of man was...
Page 178 - Pompey came : the invincible, the conqueror of a thousand cities, the light of Rome; the lord of Asia, riding on the very wings of victory. But he profaned her temple ; and from that hour he went down — down, like a millstone plunged into the ocean! Blind counsel, rash ambition, womanish fears, were upon the great statesman and warrior of Rome. Where does he sleep ? What sands were...
Page 177 - The Assyrian came, the mightiest power of the world; he plundered her temple, and led her people into captivity. How long was it before his empire was a dream, his dynasty extinguished in blood, and an enemy on his throne ?—The Persian came ; from her protector...