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 daw from Jolin to Simox, and scourged, and ter- mented before their tribunal seats ; again, as Jesus vas scoffed et, beaten, and villainously treated by the Soldiers iu Pilate's Palace, so were the Jewislı noulemen and governors, abused, beaten, and cruci- fied by the same soldiers. Josepluns afbrms, that 500 of them euffered this approbrious death in one day, insanch, that the place they died in would hardly <outain so many crosses, nor eould they scarce End crosses to execute them upon.

Q. What became of those sixty thousand that Ti. ius cent as a present to his father Vespasian at Rome.

A. They were most all put to death for the Em- peror's pleasure, and Josephus, says, he saw, with his owu eyes, fifteen hundred murdered in one day, by combats among themselves, and fifteen with wild beasts, for the Emperors diversion, and others were made bonfires of in time of triumph, and others can. demued to the quarries, to dig, and kew stones all their lives. -

Q. Was this of. Titus the utter and total ruin of all the Jews?

A. After Titus Adrian destroyed an innumerablo multitude, and and sent his lieutenant Severus to ex- tinguish the whole race of them, who ruined ninety eight towns and villages, and slew 580 Jews in one day. he razed the walls and ancient buildings of Jerusalem, so that one stone was not loft upon another, and changed the nanie of it unto Elial, after that of Isis master Elias Adrianna, and made a law that it should be death for any Jewish slave ever to return thither, or so much as to look from any high ploa toward that country again.

Q. As there was many of the Jews couverted and mere become Christians in Jerusalem, did these sub- mi the destruction of Jerusalem!