Here those who held fast to the Law met and contested for their old exclusiveness with wild heathen Idumean soldiers, starvelings, ruffians and strange women from out-lying towns.

Far and wide were wandering crowds, surly, defiant, discourteous, exacting.

Manifestly it was the visitors who were the aggressors.

They had been overthrown and driven from their own into an unsubjugated city which was secure.

They felt the rage of the defeated which are not subdued, and the resentment against another's unearned immunity.