But no! We must revert to the days of Saul!" "Yes; but they declare they will have no king but God; no commander but the Messiah to come; no order but primitive impulse! But the Maccabee will change all that! It is but the far swing of the first revolt.

Jerusalem is ready for reason at this hour, it is said." "Yes," Philip assented with a little more spirit.

"It hath reached us, who have dealings with the East, that there is a better feeling in the city.

Such slaughter has been done there among the Sadducees, such hordes of rebels from outlying subjugated towns have poured their license and violence in upon the safe City of Delight, that the citizens of Jerusalem actually look forward to the coming of Titus as a deliverance from the afflictions which their own people have visited upon them." "The hour for the Maccabee, indeed," Costobarus ruminated.
"And the hour for Him whom we all expect," Philip added in a low tone.
Costobarus bowed his head.

Presently he drew a scroll from the folds of his ample robe.
"Hear what Philadelphus writes me: Caesarea, II Kal.Jul.