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Updated: May 27, 2025
There had been misunderstandings among the generals at the capture of Damascus, followed by a massacre of the fleeing inhabitants. Sophronius, therefore, stipulated that the surrender of Jerusalem should take place in presence of the khalif himself Accordingly, Omar, the khalif, came from Medina for that purpose.
The patriarch Sophronius appeared on the walls, and by the voice of an interpreter demanded a conference. After a vain attempt to dissuade the lieutenant of the caliph from his impious enterprise, he proposed, in the name of the people, a fair capitulation, with this extraordinary clause, that the articles of security should be ratified by the authority and presence of Omar himself.
Sophronius took him, first of all, to the Church of the Resurrection. 'Be-hold, said he, 'the temple of David. 'Thou sayest not true, said Omar, after a few moments' reflection; 'the Prophet gave me a description of the temple of David, and it tallieth not with the building I now see. The patriarch then conducted him to the Church of Sion.
Jerome's Latin version of the Psalter , with a preface addressed to Sophronius, and written in a tenth-century hand, should not be passed over. Another Psalter , executed in England at the end of the tenth or beginning of the eleventh century, has a fine drawing of the Crucifixion, and grand initial letters.
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