The History of the Jews, from the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times, Volume 3Hurd and Houghton, 1865 |
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Page 101 - Verily those who disbelieve our signs, we will surely cast to be broiled in hell fire ; so often as their skins shall be well burned, we will give them other skins in exchange, that they may taste the sharper torment ; for GOD is mighty and wise.
Page 157 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea...
Page 103 - And he hath caused such of those who have received the scriptures, as assisted the confederates, to come down out of their fortresses, and he cast into their hearts terror and dismay: a part of them ye slew, and a part ye made captives; and God hath caused you to inherit their land, and their houses, and their wealth, and a land on which ye have not trodden; for God is almighty.
Page 92 - If the clergy enforced upon the kneeling and penitent emperor the persecution of the Jews, it must be acknowledged that provocation was not wanting, for how many of them had been eye-witnesses of, perhaps sufferers, in the horrible atrocities committed on the capture of the city. Yet we have no authentic account of great severities exercised by Heraclius. The law of Hadrian was re-enacted, which prohibited the Jews from approaching within three miles of the city, a law which, in the...
Page 99 - We gave unto the children of Israel the book of the law, and wisdom, and prophecy; and we fed them with good things, and preferred them above all nations; and we gave them plain ordinances concerning the business of religion...
Page 26 - Their wealth was poured forth in lavish profusion ; and all who were near the spot, and could not contribute so amply, offered their personal exertions. Blessed were the hands that toiled in such a work; and unworthy was he of the blood of Israel who would not unlock, at such a call, his most secret hoards.1 Men cheerfully surrendered the hard-won treasures of their avarice ; women offered up the ornaments of their vanity.
Page 106 - Bishr, a favorite follower of Mohammed, died of partaking more largely of the poisoned shoulder of the kid. The woman, Zeinub, sister of the brave Marhab, avowed her guilt " I said within myself, If he is a prophet, he will be aware that the shoulder of the kid is poisoned ; but if he be a mere pretender, then we shall be rid of him, and the Jews will again prosper.
Page 234 - Lady Helen ran to the deep draw-well, And knelt upon her knee ; " My bonny Sir Hew, so ye be here, I pray thee speak to me.
Page 405 - Godolphin, when this proposal was made ; and as soon as the agent was gone, pressed him to close with it. Lord Godolphin was not of his opinion. He foresaw that it would provoke two of the most powerful bodies in the nation, the clergy and the merchants ; he gave other reasons too against it ; and, in fine, it was dropped.
Page 243 - Ye men of Israel, the God of our fathers, to whom none can say, What doest thou ? commands us at this time to die for his law ; and behold ! death is even before our eyes, and there is nothing left us to consider but how to undergo it in the most reputable and easy manner. If we fall into the hands of our enemies, (which I think there is no possibility of escaping), our deaths...