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About this time our Saviour was born in Jude'a. Questions for Examination. What was the general conduct of Augustus? Mention some instances of his moderation? What farther instance of his moderation is on record? How did he most decidedly show the alteration in his disposition? In what was he particularly remarkable? Was he happy in domestic life?

He gave her all Pheni'cia, Celo-Syria, and Cy'prus, with a great part of Cili'cia, Ara'bia, and Jude'a, gifts which he had no right to bestow, but which he pretended to grant in imitation of Hercules. 6. This complication of vice and folly at last totally exasperated the Romans, and Augus'tus, willing to take the advantage of their resentment, took care to exaggerate all his defects. 7.

But these expectations only served to aggravate their calamities: for, being incensed at the privileges which were granted the Pagan worshippers in their new city, they fell upon the Romans and Christians that were dispersed throughout Jude'a, and unmercifully put them all to the sword. 25.

Sen'eca, a celebrated philosopher, and a son of Sen'eca the orator, was born at Corduba, in Spain, A.D. 8. This town was also the birthplace of his father. It was in the vicinity of this city that Cæsar fought his last battle with the sons of Pompey. Vespasian was at that time conducting the war in Jude'a, in Asia. The destruction of Jerusalem happened in the year of our Lord 70.

He restored Jude'a to Her'od Agrip'pa, which Calig'ula had taken from Her'od Antipas, his uncle, the man who had put John the Baptist to death, and who was banished by order of the present emperor. He even undertook to gratify the people by foreign conquest.