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From his memories of the old Passovers of his boyhood, he saw

instantly that there had co

sons of Abraham

They went in bodies, in nureat armies from the leveled cities of Joppa,

Ptolemais and Anthedon, from Cæsarea and Tyre and Sidon, from the

enthusiastic towns in Galilee, and even from far-off Antioch and

Ephesus They were not fewer in number, because of a year of warfare

and theare But there were more--double, even triple the number

that usually went up to Jerusalem at this time For of the millions of

inhabitants in Judea in the unhappy year of 70 AD, a third of theees from ruined cities Therefore,

instead of the armies of men, happy, hopeful and enthusiastic, who had

journeyed in former years to Jerusalem, there passed before the

Maccabee a mixed multitude of men and women and children Thousands

carried with them all that warfare had left to theoods, or extra clothing; other thousands

bore nothing in their hands, and by the wear in their garer in their faces, it see to carry

The Maccabee noted finally the entire absence of the travelers who

fared in state Not in all that long procession that wound up the