Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Israel Translated From the German, Vol. 8 The great rebellion against the whole power of Rome on the part of the J adeane, collected around their ancient and august Sanctuary - notwithstanding that it was at first successful had at length been put down the Sanctuary and Jerusalem had been laid'in ruins, the people of the ancient true religion, shortly before either so highly honoured or so greatly feared in the world, had been suddenly basely degraded. These cata strophes, and all the other terrible and unexpected calamities connected with the final disasters that befell this nation, had now at last really brought about the great final crisis, towards which all the long history of the nation had been tending during the growing complications of its closing period. This final crisis was necessarily so terrible in its appearance, and so overwhelming in its visible consequences, because such a vast amount of Roman, and still more of J adean infatuation, obduracy, and serious mistakes of all kinds had accumulated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.