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56 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. author, in which he writes as follows : " So great was the caprice of Cams in his conduct towards all, but especially towards the na tion of the Jews. As he was excessively hostile to these, he appro priated their places of worship to himself in all the cities, begin ning with those at Alexandria, filling them with his images and statues, For having permitted it when others erected them of their own accord, he now began to erect them by absolute com mand. But the temple in the holy city, which had been left un touched as yet, and been endowed with privileges as an inviolable asylum, he changed and transformed into a temple of his own, that it should be publicly called the temple of Caius the younger, the visible Jupiter. (eTtifycuvovg AiO^) Many other and almost in describable calamities, the same author relates, as happening to the Jews of Alexandria, during the reign of the aforesaid emperor, in his second book, to which he gave the title, * On the Virtues.'' Josephus also agrees with him, who likewise intimates that the ca lamities of the whole nation took their rise from the times of Pi late, and the crimes against our Saviour. Let us hear then, wJvt he also says in the second book of the Jewish War. " Pilate being sent by Tiberias as procurator of Judea? at night carried the covered images of Caesar into the temple ; these are called statues. The following day, this excited the greatest disturbance among the Jews. For they that were near, were confounded at the sight, as a contemptuous prostitution of their legal institutions ; for they do not allow any image to be set up in their city." Com paring these accounts with the writings of the evangelists, you will perceive, that it was not long before that exclamation came upon them, which they uttered under the same Pilate, and by which they cried again and again that they had no other king but Caesar. After this, the same historian records, that forthwith another calamity overtook them, in these words : " But after these things, he (i. e. Pilate,) excited another tumult, by expending the public treasure which is called Corban, in the construction of an aqueduct. This extended nearly three hundred stadia, (furlongs, i. e. from the city.) The multitude were sorely grieved at it ; and when Pilate came to Jerusalem, surrounding the tribunal, they began to cry out against him. But having anticipated their