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t, temporarily? Who shall say? Certainly it _spoke_! Unseen, unnoticed, at the very moment that the High-Priest fell, slain by the false Prophet, there had entered the Temple, Cohen, who had been High-Priest for the _first_ year of this new Temple's history. He slipped away as the image uttered its speech. He met many of the priests of other of the Courses, as they were approaching the Temple, also numbers of the devout Jews of the city and its suburbs, and many from other parts of the world, who had been specially drawn hither by the news that had been flashed world-wide, as to some great event about to happen in Jerusalem. "Stay!" he cried. His looks told of something serious, and in an instant he was the centre of an eager, anxious, enquiring crowd of Jews. "Jehovah help us!" he went on. "For those who would be true to Him now, must be prepared for flight or for death. Apleon, is a traitor! '_He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him; he hath broken his covenant._' Psalm lv. 20. '_He confirmed a covenant with us for seven years_.' Daniel ix. 27. '_The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were drawn swords_.' Psalm lv. 21." Cohen, even while he had been speaking had led the crowding Jews away from that main road, and now, in a _cul-de-sac_, he was continuing his words. "Blind! Blind! that we were, all of us, I, especially, for my Gentile friend, the editor of 'The Courier'--London daily paper--warned me. He told me of the meaning of our own prophet Daniel's words, '_In the midst of the week_ (the seven years of the covenant we made with that apostate) _he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease_.' "This he has done this morning. The priests were stopped in their preparations for the morning sacrifice. "'_And,_' said our father, Daniel, '_for the over-spreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation_.' Daniel ix. 27. "Brethren, of the House of Israel, the Lord our God is one God. I am no Mehushmad, but in common with many of our rabbis, I have read the Gentile New Testament, and there, in the words of the Nazarene Prophet, (Matt. xxiv. 15, 16.) He prophesied exactly what has come to pass this morning in our beautiful Temple, for he said: "'_When ye_ (that is we of the House of Israel) _therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of
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