The History of the Jews, From the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times, volume 2
The History of the Jews, From the Earliest Period Down to Modern Times, volume 2
Milman Henry Hart
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The houses were full of dying women and children, the streets with old men, gasping out their last breath. The bodies re- mained unburied, for either the emaciated relatives had not strength for the melancholy duty, or, in the un- certainty of their own lives, neglected every office of Digitized by Googk 860 EXECUTION OF MATTHIAS AND HIS SONS. Book XVL kindness or charity. Some, indeed, died in the act of burying their friends ; others crept into the cemeteries, lay down on a bier, and expired.... There was no sor- row, no wailing ; they had not strength to moan ; they sat with diy eyes, and mouths drawn up into a kind of bitter smile. Those who were more hardy looked with envy on those who had already breathed their last. Many died, says the historian, with their eyes still 8tea(Uly fixed on the Temple. There was a deep and heavy silence over the whole city, broken only by the robbers, as they forced open houses to plunder the dead, and in licentious sport dragged away the last decent covering fix)m their limbs; they would even try the edge of their swords on the dead.
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