rchitecture, the Corinthian being repeated in the two
highest. Some of the bas-reliefs, still in good preservation, represent
the table of the shew-bread, the seven-branched golden candlestick, the
vessel of incense, and the silver trumpets, which were taken by Titus from
the Temple at Jerusalem, and, with the book of the law, the veil of the
temple, and other spoils, were carried in the triumph. The fate of these
sacred relics is rather interesting. Josephus says, that the veil and
books of the law were deposited in the Palatium, and the rest of the
spoils in the Temple of Peace. When that was burnt, in the reign of
Commodus, these treasures were saved, and they were afterwards carried off
by Genseric to Africa. Belisarius recovered them, and brought them to
Constantinople, A.D. 520. Procopius informs us, that a Jew, who saw them,
told an acquaintance of the emperor that it would not be advisable to
carry them to the palace at Constantinople, as they could not remain
anywhere else but where Solomon had placed them. This, he said, was the
reason why Genseric had taken the Palace at Rome, and the Roman army had
in turn taken that of the Vandal kings. Upon this, the emperor was so
alarmed, that he sent the whole of them to the Christian churches at
Jerusalem.]

[Footnote 783: A.U.C. 825.]

[Footnote 784: A.U.C. 824.]

[Footnote 785: A.U.C. 823, 825, 827-830, 832.]

[Footnote 786: Berenice, whose name is written by our author and others
Beronice, was daughter of Agrippa the Great, who was by Aristobulus,
grandson of Herod the Great. Having been contracted to Mark, son of
Alexander Lysimachus, he died before their union, and Agrippa married her
to Herod, Mark's brother, for whom he had obtained from the emperor
Claudius the kingdom of Chalcis. Herod also dying, Berenice, then a
widow, lived with her brother, Agrippa, and was suspected of an incestuous
intercourse with him. It was at this time that, on their way to the
imperial court at Rome, they paid a visit to Festus, at Caesarea, and were
present when St. Paul answered his accusers so eloquently before the
tribunal of the governor. Her fascinations were so great, that, to shield
herself from the charge of incest, she prevailed on Polemon, king of
Cilicia, to submit to be circumcised, become a Jew, and marry her. That
union also proving unfortunate, she appears to have returned to Jerusalem,
and having attracted Vespasian by magnificent gifts, and the