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Chiyaley,
of the narrative of the Holy "War , in which the particular Order bore the most prominent part . Erom the date when the Templars commenced their military operations until their final departure from Palestine / no event of importance took place , in which one or other of the Orders were not participators ; hence our history , for the time , will be that of the Crusades .
The style and title of these and other chivalrous Orders having been adopted in the higher degrees of ^ Freemasonry , it is our intention at the close of the history to enter into an examination of their claims to be a part of our institution . On the death of Herod the Great , king of Judea , a . d . 1 , his dominions were divided between his four sons , Archelaus , the elder , having Judea proper , Idumea , and Samaria . On the pretence that his subjects had made complaints against him , Archelaus was summoned to Kome , and by Augustus banished to Vienna in Gaul , and Judea became a Eoman province : the Jews , however , continued to enjoy the exercise of their religious and municipal liberties . Herod
Agrippa , who was Tetrarch in a . h . 53 , was intrusted by the emperor with the right of appointing and deposing the high priest at Jerusalem , and he occasionally resided in the city , though his general residence was at Ciesarea . After the time of Agrippa , a succession of more than usually rapacious Roman governors drove the Jews into despair and revolt ; they overpowered the feeble Soman garrison and massacred them . The Jews were in other places butchered by the Greeks and Romans ; and C . Gallus , the prefect of Syria , advanced against Jerusalem with a legion ( 6 , 000 foot and horse ) , but was defeated by the insurgents with great loss . The revolt in consequence became general throughout Judea and Galilee .
Nero now sent Vespasian with an army of 60 , 000 men , and he was a whole year scouring the country , and reducing * the strongholds . In A . D . 68 he was advancing to undertake the siege of Jerusalem , when he received the news of Nero ' s death , followed by those of Galba , Otho , and Vitelliiis . Vespasian accordingly repaired to Home , and was proclaimed emperor ; sending his son Titus to complete the subjugation of Palestine . The regular siege of Jerusalem was begun in the spring
of a . h . 70 , and lasted till September , when the city and its temple were totally destroyed , all its inhabitants who were not killed being sold into slavery . Wo may here remark , that the dispersion ofthe Jews over the world , which is commonly dated from the destruction of Jerusalem , had in reality begun long before . The Ptolemies had transplanted large colonies of them into Egypt , Gyrene , and Cyprus . In the time of Cicero , B . C . 40 , there was a wealthy Jewish community in
Italy . At the end of the Babylonian captivity , many Jews voluntarily sojourned in Mesopotamia , Avhcrc there lias always remained a considerable community ; these , after the final destruction of Jerusalem , acknowledged an hereditary chief , who was called the " Prince of the Captivity ; " while the Jews scattered over the Roman empire had their spiritual head in the patriarch of Tiberias .
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Chiyaley,
of the narrative of the Holy "War , in which the particular Order bore the most prominent part . Erom the date when the Templars commenced their military operations until their final departure from Palestine / no event of importance took place , in which one or other of the Orders were not participators ; hence our history , for the time , will be that of the Crusades .
The style and title of these and other chivalrous Orders having been adopted in the higher degrees of ^ Freemasonry , it is our intention at the close of the history to enter into an examination of their claims to be a part of our institution . On the death of Herod the Great , king of Judea , a . d . 1 , his dominions were divided between his four sons , Archelaus , the elder , having Judea proper , Idumea , and Samaria . On the pretence that his subjects had made complaints against him , Archelaus was summoned to Kome , and by Augustus banished to Vienna in Gaul , and Judea became a Eoman province : the Jews , however , continued to enjoy the exercise of their religious and municipal liberties . Herod
Agrippa , who was Tetrarch in a . h . 53 , was intrusted by the emperor with the right of appointing and deposing the high priest at Jerusalem , and he occasionally resided in the city , though his general residence was at Ciesarea . After the time of Agrippa , a succession of more than usually rapacious Roman governors drove the Jews into despair and revolt ; they overpowered the feeble Soman garrison and massacred them . The Jews were in other places butchered by the Greeks and Romans ; and C . Gallus , the prefect of Syria , advanced against Jerusalem with a legion ( 6 , 000 foot and horse ) , but was defeated by the insurgents with great loss . The revolt in consequence became general throughout Judea and Galilee .
Nero now sent Vespasian with an army of 60 , 000 men , and he was a whole year scouring the country , and reducing * the strongholds . In A . D . 68 he was advancing to undertake the siege of Jerusalem , when he received the news of Nero ' s death , followed by those of Galba , Otho , and Vitelliiis . Vespasian accordingly repaired to Home , and was proclaimed emperor ; sending his son Titus to complete the subjugation of Palestine . The regular siege of Jerusalem was begun in the spring
of a . h . 70 , and lasted till September , when the city and its temple were totally destroyed , all its inhabitants who were not killed being sold into slavery . Wo may here remark , that the dispersion ofthe Jews over the world , which is commonly dated from the destruction of Jerusalem , had in reality begun long before . The Ptolemies had transplanted large colonies of them into Egypt , Gyrene , and Cyprus . In the time of Cicero , B . C . 40 , there was a wealthy Jewish community in
Italy . At the end of the Babylonian captivity , many Jews voluntarily sojourned in Mesopotamia , Avhcrc there lias always remained a considerable community ; these , after the final destruction of Jerusalem , acknowledged an hereditary chief , who was called the " Prince of the Captivity ; " while the Jews scattered over the Roman empire had their spiritual head in the patriarch of Tiberias .