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and the holy temple, which before he had despoiled, he would garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and out of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices;
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that the holy city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common burying place, he would set at liberty.
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And concerning the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be devoured by the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens;
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and the holy temple, which before he had despoiled, he would garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and out of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices;
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yea, and that also he would become a Jew himself, and go through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God.
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But for all this, his pains would not cease; for the just judgment of God had come upon him. Therefore, despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter following, containing the form of a supplication, in this manner:
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