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A great light sprang into the face of the Greek Philadelphus,

nervous, albeit the news he heard filled him with pleasure, stood and

waited

The Christian stepped back and Mo, approached and handed

the leather roll into the none too steady hands of the Ephesian He

opened it and drew forth parchments

Aloud he read a ue in Ascalon; under the great seals of the Roman state, he

found and read the oath of the prefect, that such a maiden as the

rabbi had described had been married before him to Philadelphus

Maccabaeus fourteen years before Then followed the depositions of

forty Jews and Gentiles ere nurses, tradesmen and other people

like to have daily contact with the young woht any claim that Laodice was other than the ho