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strayed by elephants , and ordered all that could be found in Egypt to be enclosed in the Hippodrome for this purpose . The king ' s drunkenness prevented the execution for two successive days ; and on the third , when the elephants were let loose , irritated as usual with wine and frankincense ,
they turned their rage on the spectators , and destroyed great numbers of them . Meanwhile , prodig ies and extraordinary meteors appeared in the air , which so terrified the king , that he set the Jews at liberty , restored to them their former rank and possessions , and punished their apostate brethren with death .
Another attempt to degrade the Jews , by pouring contempt on their worship , was made by Antiochus Epip hanes . This monarch , whose impious profanity the prophet Daniel had foretold ( c . 11 , v . 21 , et seq . ) being informed , on the unfortunate dispute between Jason and Menelaus , that the Jews had revolted from him , marched his army to
Jerusalem , entered the city by force , slew 40 , 000 of the inhabitants with , the sword , and brought on a perfect desolation . He plundered the temple of all its wealth , penetrated into the Most Holy Place , and , in reference to the abomination , with which the Jews held swine's flesh , he sacrificed a sow upon the altar , and , boiling the flesh , he sprinkled the
liquor over every part of the temple , that he might cover it with pollution and defilement . He set up the statue of Jupiter Olympus in the temple at Jerusalem , and that of Jupiter Xenius in the temple on Mount Gerizim . _ He sold the inhabitants for slaves to the neighbouring nations , and appointed heathen governors over the land of Judea and Samaria , reserving the office of high priest to Menelaus , who had formerly been accessory to a robbery committed
in the temple . Not satisfied with the desolation he had brought on Judea , this monarch , jealous of a secret society into which he could not be admitted , endeavoured to compel the Jews to join in the idolatrous processions of the Dionysiaca , and to sacrifice at idolatrous altars ; and those mandate
who refused implicit obedience to this , were obliged to retire into the mountains and fastnesses for protection , where they remained for some time , under the conduct of Mattathius , the Asmontean . Amongst these miserable fugitives were the Kasidteans , an order , as Laurie denominates them , of KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE , who bound themselves to adorn the porches of that most mag-
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On Freemasonry. The History And Antiquities Of Freemasonry.
strayed by elephants , and ordered all that could be found in Egypt to be enclosed in the Hippodrome for this purpose . The king ' s drunkenness prevented the execution for two successive days ; and on the third , when the elephants were let loose , irritated as usual with wine and frankincense ,
they turned their rage on the spectators , and destroyed great numbers of them . Meanwhile , prodig ies and extraordinary meteors appeared in the air , which so terrified the king , that he set the Jews at liberty , restored to them their former rank and possessions , and punished their apostate brethren with death .
Another attempt to degrade the Jews , by pouring contempt on their worship , was made by Antiochus Epip hanes . This monarch , whose impious profanity the prophet Daniel had foretold ( c . 11 , v . 21 , et seq . ) being informed , on the unfortunate dispute between Jason and Menelaus , that the Jews had revolted from him , marched his army to
Jerusalem , entered the city by force , slew 40 , 000 of the inhabitants with , the sword , and brought on a perfect desolation . He plundered the temple of all its wealth , penetrated into the Most Holy Place , and , in reference to the abomination , with which the Jews held swine's flesh , he sacrificed a sow upon the altar , and , boiling the flesh , he sprinkled the
liquor over every part of the temple , that he might cover it with pollution and defilement . He set up the statue of Jupiter Olympus in the temple at Jerusalem , and that of Jupiter Xenius in the temple on Mount Gerizim . _ He sold the inhabitants for slaves to the neighbouring nations , and appointed heathen governors over the land of Judea and Samaria , reserving the office of high priest to Menelaus , who had formerly been accessory to a robbery committed
in the temple . Not satisfied with the desolation he had brought on Judea , this monarch , jealous of a secret society into which he could not be admitted , endeavoured to compel the Jews to join in the idolatrous processions of the Dionysiaca , and to sacrifice at idolatrous altars ; and those mandate
who refused implicit obedience to this , were obliged to retire into the mountains and fastnesses for protection , where they remained for some time , under the conduct of Mattathius , the Asmontean . Amongst these miserable fugitives were the Kasidteans , an order , as Laurie denominates them , of KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE , who bound themselves to adorn the porches of that most mag-