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. 1851 Excerpt: ...the merciless return He was about to receive, He utters that touching expostulation, ' O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!' All these ...
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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. 1851 Excerpt: ...the merciless return He was about to receive, He utters that touching expostulation, ' O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!' All these things took place, probably, in that inner court-yard of the temple in which was situated the treasury, where the people deposited, in chests prepared for the purpose, their voluntary contributions to maintain the service of the temple. Here Jesus saw that poor widow, whose name is unknown, but whose deed of self-denying, unostentatious charity, in casting in two mites, was more in the sight of heaven than all the offerings of the rich. As our Lord was now retiring from the temple, one of his disciples directed His attention to the majestic structure, --' Master see what manner of buildings and what stones are here.' Then came that fearful prophecy, so improbable as it doubtless seemed when uttered, but yet so literally fulfilled: ' There shall not be loft here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.' This night he retired, we are told, to the Mount of Olives, but whether He went as far as Bethany we are not informed. Wednesday.--Last night our Lord abode in the Mount that is called the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning, as He sat there still, the disciples came unto Him privately, to ask Him when that destruction of the temple should be which he had yesterday foretold. As they were gathered in a group upon the face of the Mount, its summit towering above and behind them, the newly risen sun looking over it began to throw his beams upon the pinnacles and porches of the temple. What more glorious object to behold than a majestic...
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