This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ...inhabited. The Jewish authors assure us, that Turnus Rufus, or rather Terentius Rufus, whom Titus left in command, ploughed up the ground on which the temple had stood, that none might ever after rebuild it, the Roman laws indeed prohibiting the rebuilding of places where this ceremony had been performed, without first obtaining permission from the senate: but it is believed, that the ground on which the temple stood was not ploughed up till after the revolt of the Jews under Adrian. Some are of an opinion, (Hieron. in Zach. cap. viii.) that Jerusalem was not so totally destroyed but that some inhabitants remained there; whether amid the ruins, with the Roman troops, or near them, or in private dwellings. St. Epiphanius affirms, that the house whither the apostles retired after the ascension of Jesus Christ, and in which they received the Holy Ghost, was preserved; together with seven synagogues, near it, on Mount Sion. Besides, we know the names of several bishops of the Hebrew race, who governed the church of Jerusalem to Adrian's time, when a bishop was chosen from among the uncircumcised. Eusebius (Demonstrat. Evan. lib. vi.) goes farther than Epiphanius; for he insists that Titus preserved half the city, agreeably to the prediction of the prophet Zachary, xiv. 2: "Half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city;" meaning, that one portion of the city should be left, and the whole should not be razed to the foundations till the time of Adrian. St. Jerom maintains, that Mount Moriah, where the temple had stood, and Sion, where the palace had been, were left entire by Titus. (Hieron. and Cyrol. in Zach. xiv.) All which is founded only on what Josephus says, of Titus leaving that pa...