sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation

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eel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth,

Behold we travel to a distant land to do battle with the kings of that land. 'We take our souls in our hands' in order to kill and to subjugate all those kingdoms that do not believe in the Crucified

ill repute on account of his tyrannical mode of life. Called by divine revelation, like another Saul, as he maintained, to the practice of religion of

There was another detestable crime in this assemblage of wayfaring people, who were foolish and insanely fickle.

nd doors, they killed the Jews, about seven hundred in number, who in vain resisted the force and attack of so many thousands. They killed the women, also, and with their swords pierced tender children of whatever age and sex.

He placed the Jews in the very spacious hall of his own house, away from the sight of Count Emico and his followers, that they might remain safe and sound in a very secure and strong place

hey rose in a spirit of cruelty against the Jewish people scattered throughout these cities and slaughtered them without mercy

his narrative is the most sensitive of the Christian accounts of the massacres of the Jews in the Rhineland and southeastern Europe that marked the beginning of the "Crusade of the People."

The name of the Patriarch was Simeon. As he learned from Peter's conversation that the latter was prudent, able and eloquent, and a man of great experience, he began to disclose to him more confidentially all the evils which the people of God had suffered while dwelling in Jerusalem.To whom Peter replied: "You may be assured,

A certain priest named Peter, from the kingdom of the Franks and the bishopric of Amiens, a hermit both in deed and name, led by the same ardor, arrived at Jerusalem. He was small in stature and his external appearance contemptible, but greater valor ruled in his slight frame.

and so he was chosen by the Jews as less wise and more fitting to be mocked and sacrificed, in disgrace of the Lord's Passion.

OW HE WAS IN THE HABIT OF GOING OUT OF HIS WAY TO THE JEWS, FOR WHICH HE WAS REBUKED BY HIS FAMILY, AND HENCEFORWARD KEPT HIMSELF AWAY FROM THEM

By the time he was seven years old, as I have learned from the mother's account, he already began to be a lover of abstinence, so that while his older brothers did not fast, he did so three times a week; that is, on Mondays, Wednesdays and FridaysY

t so happened, however, that she was chosen to be honoured with a vision, a foretelling of the great holiness and dignity that existed within her womb. It seemed to her, indeed, as she slept, that she was standing on a roa

No one should think it absurd that God wanted a boy of such future holiness and dignity to be born of humble parents

When he had said this, he died.[k]

When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his relatives, the Israelites.[d] 24 When he saw one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.

The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him, 10 and rescued him from all his afflictions, and enabled him to win favor and to show wisdom when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

4 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth[d] will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed on to us.”

Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

“You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”[k] 58 Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.” 59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

“Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word

but now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.

I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you look for an opportunity to kill me, because there is no place in you for my word.

 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

“His blood be on us and on our children!”

“Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!

I have suffered a great deal because of a dream about him

For he realized that it was out of jealousy that they had handed him over.

0 In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided a very large amount of plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own. 31 They collected the arms of the enemy,[h]

to have mercy on the city that was being destroyed and about to be leveled to the ground

After the first brother had died in this way, they brought forward the second for their sport.

For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.”

 and should kill those who did not choose to change over to Greek customs

5 The altar was covered with abominable offerings that were forbidden by the laws. 6 People could neither keep the sabbath, nor observe the festivals of their ancestors, nor so much as confess themselves to be Jews.

Athenian[a] senator[b] to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their ancestors and no longer to live by the laws of God; 2 also to pollute the temple in Jerusalem and to call it the temple of Olympian Zeus,

But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and the book sealed until the time of the end. M

 The two kings, their minds bent on evil, shall sit at one table and exchange lies.

hree more kings shall arise in Persia. The fourth shall be far richer than all of them, and when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. 3 

Do not fear, greatly beloved, you are safe. Be strong and courageous!”

Then I heard the sound of his words; and when I heard the sound of his words, I fell into a trance, face to the ground

 His body was like beryl, his face like lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the roar of a multitude.

who did with her according to the vow he had made

r, “Let this thing be done for me: Grant me two months, so that I may go and wander[b] on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, my companions and I.

“If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, 31 then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord’s, to be offered up by me as a burnt offering.

7 It is not I who have sinned against you, but you are the one who does me wrong by making war on me.

7 Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Let us pass through your land’; but the king of Edom would not listen.

, “Come and be our commander, so that we may fight with the Ammonites.”

“Shout! For the Lord has given you the city

Go forward and march around the city; have the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord.”

You shall annihilate them

and when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword.

 When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace.

 Then the officials shall address the troops, saying, “Has anyone built a new house but not dedicated it?

If your gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, your offering shall be a male without blemish

 If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you shall offer a male without blemish

And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,

since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

 Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

He said to him, “Abraham!”

To instruct the mass of our citizens in these their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens, being then the objects of education in the primary schools, whether private or public, in them should be taught reading, writing & numerical arithmetic, the elements of mensuration (useful in so many callings)

he commissioners were first to consider at what point it was understood that university education should commence?

A Professor is proposed for antient Languages, the Latin, Greek and Hebrew, particularly, but these Languages being the foundation common to all the Sciences, it is difficult to foresee what may be the extent of this school

The considerations which have governed the specification of languages to be taught by the professor of Modern Languages were that the French is the language of general intercourse among nations, and as a depository of human Science is unsurpassed by any other language living or dead:

The Italian abounds with works of Very superior Order, Valuable for their matter, and still more distinguished as models of the finest taste in style and composition,

discouraging persuasion, that man is fixed, by the law of his nature, at a given point: that his improvement is a chimæra,