JESUS’ CURSE (IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE) Delivered from the Cross with all the authority of the Saviour of the World at the precise moment of his people’s rejection of Him. Forgive them Lord for they know not what they do. And within forty years it came to pass. Their Temple had been destroyed. Their Holy of Holies had been trampled by Titus. Their sacred paraphernalia had been looted. The consecrated foundations of their city had been ploughed over. A million had been killed during the siege and 97,000 were captured and enslaved. A Roman coin was minted showing a Jewish woman in chains under a palm tree. When the Romans built a replacement city The Jews were forbidden entrance. Homeless, they wandered the earth facing hard won prosperity followed by expulsion from every place they settled in. Finally, 154
Gnomonic Verses
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