Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-30
SLAUGHTER or THE GALILEANs.
Pontius PLATE Armed His Soldiers Wit
(l1,hs In eristnn.

his Official residence-a kind of pal
ace for public misunderstanding oil
feasts, and he was there that day,
but he was in a very ugly frame of
mind. Such mon as Ben Nassur,
aided by zealots from other places,
were arousing their followers more
and more from hour to hour until
at last an angry multitude swarmed
around the gates of Pilates house,
cursing him in tho namo Of the law
and of the temple. They clamored
for the restitution of the treasures
taken from the priests, the cessation
of the aqueduct work. which the
fall of the tower so plainly declared
to be wicked, and they furiously de-
manded the removal Of tho templo
guards.
The Roman governor had not the
least idea Of granting any of these
demands, and he determined to teach
the angry Galileans a lesson. He
sent to his camps for a large num-
Der of soldiers. They were not to
come in armor, brtin ordinary cloth
ing, and wero to be armed only with
clubs. Strong men can do great
deal of damage with heavy cudgels,
but Pilates idea was to express in
this way his soldierly contempt for
jewish mob. His men were order
cd to surround it and to wait for
such commands as he might give
them.
Cyril's fear of the rabbis and
priests grew stronger as ho drew
near the temple. There was no other
place on earth, he believed, whore
sacrifice to God could be offered as
solemnly as upon the brazen gold
ornamcnted altar of burnt offering,
which no and his father were soon
to see.
Louder and louder grew the sounds
of the tumult in the open space be-
fore the governor S palace, but Cyril
and his father could no longer hear
it, for they were now in the. outer
court of the temple. They advanced
toward the steps leading up to the
gorgeously gilded portals of the in
ner court Here they wore met by
II Levite, to whom Ezra at once
handed tho feecy offering which he
had brought and had so far carried
in his arms. During several min
utos, however, there had been
strange sounds beyond the gate of
tho outer court, and they We're fast
growing louder Ezra and his son
would have paused to listen, but the
Levite led the way into the inner
court, and they followed. In mo-
mont moro Cyril could sec the
smoking altar, the splendidly array
cd priests, the chanting Levites, the
swinging oonsers and al the grand
appliances of the temple worship
Everything was splendid beyond his
imaginings, but he could not look
ut it for more than a moment. Bo-
hind him, surging through tho gate
into the outer court, filling that space
and then pouring on into the inner
court, came shouting, shricking,
maddoned multitude.
plato club mon had been doing
their brutal work only too well, and,
if his soldiers carried clubs only,
other enemies of tho Galilcans-and
they were many-had seized this OPP
portunity, for steel blades wore
flashing among tho pursuers. An
angry mob was now pitilessly smit-
ing down tho Jews who had protest
cd so zealously for tho temple and
tho law.
They did not pause at the cato of
tho inner court, but in q moment
moro there were slain Galileans ly-
ing among tho bodies of the animals
prepared for sacrifice, and the re-
venge of plate upon those who had
upbraided him was becoming terri
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