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 magicians the latter challenged the apostle to perform the same, who, being strong in faith, readily accepted thereof, and when Magus and the devil were both baffled, not being able to effect the great miracle, Peter, by the power of God, restored the person to life, the people being enraged to see how the sorcerer had imposed upon them, were ready to have stoned him to death, had not the apostle's charity and generosity rescued him; yet this had so little influence upon him, that a while after he had the presumption or folly to enter upon another bold undertaking, which was to fly up into heaven; but his artificial wings, or his two invisible devils, as it is said, falling him, he fell to the ground with such broken bones and bruises as in a few days put an end to his life."

Q. Was there ever an attempt made to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem?

A. Yes; Julian the apostate, Emperor of Rome, who was once a Christian, but afterwards returned to idolatry, resolved to build the temple in despite of Christ, and that this prophecy might not prove true, "That one stone shall not be left upon another;" but when the workmen were laying the foundation, a dreadful earthquake happened, and fire issued out of the earth, destroyed all the men, and dispersed all the stones, so that there was not one stone but what was separated from another.

Q. What happened at their laying the foundation?

A. There was a stone which slipt from its place, and discovered the mouth of a cave cut in a rock, but the overseers of the work not being able to see to the bottom of it, let down a labourer by a rope, and being come to the bottom, he was up to the ancles in water, and found the place four square, and laying his hands on a little