privileges of a colony ; and denouncing the severest penalties against any of the Jewish people 'who should dare to approach its precincts, he fixed a vigilant garrison of a Roman cohort to enforce the execution of his orders. The Nazarenes had only one way left to escape the common proscription, and the force of truth was on this occasion affisted by the influence of temporal advantages. They elected Marcus for their bishop, a prelate of the race of the Gentiles, and of the Latin provinces. At his persuasion, the most considerable part of the congregation renounced the Mosaic law, in the practice of which they had persevered above a century. By this sacrifice of their habits and prejudices, they purchased a free admission into the colony of Hadrian, and more firmly cemented their union with the Catholic church ". When the name and honours of the church of The Ebjomtes. 10 Dion Caffius, l lxix. The exile of the Jewish nation from Jerusalem is attesled by Aristo of Pclla (apud Euseb. l. iv. c. 6.), and is mentioned by several ecclesiastical writers z though some os them too hastily extend this interdiction to the whole country of Palestine. ' I' Eusebiu_s,-l. iv. c; 6. Sulpicius Severus, ii. 31. By comparing their unsatisfzctory accounts, Mosheim (p. 327, &c) has drawn out a very distinct representation of the circumstances and _motive's of th'is revolution. ' , the gallantries of David, and the seraglio of Solomon. The conquest of the land of Canaan, and the extirpation of the unsuspecting natives, they were at a loss how to reconcile with the common notions of humanity and justice. But when they recollected the sanguinary list of murders, of executions, and of massacres, which stain almost every page of the Jewish annals, they |