commands of a great monarch were
executed by the enthusiasm of a whole people. [76]

[Footnote 70: Imperii sui memoriam magnitudine operum gestiens propagare
Ammian. xxiii. 1. The temple of Jerusalem had been famous even among the
Gentiles. They had many temples in each city, (at Sichem five, at
Gaza eight, at Rome four hundred and twenty-four;) but the wealth and
religion of the Jewish nation was centred in one spot.]

[Footnote 71: The secret intentions of Julian are revealed by the late
bishop of Gloucester, the learned and dogmatic Warburton; who, with the
authority of a theologian, prescribes the motives and conduct of the
Supreme Being. The discourse entitled Julian (2d edition, London, 1751)
is strongly marked with all the peculiarities which are imputed to the
Warburtonian school.]

[Footnote 72: I shelter myself behind Maimonides, Marsham, Spencer, Le
Clerc, Warburton, &c., who have fairly derided the fears, the folly, and
the falsehood of some superstitious divines. See Divine Legation, vol.
iv. p. 25, &c.]

[Footnote 73: Julian (Fragment. p. 295) respectfully styles him, and
mentions him elsewhere (Epist. lxiii.) with still higher reverence. He
doubly condemns the Christians for believing, and for renouncing, the
religion of the Jews. Their Deity was a true, but not the only, God Apul
Cyril. l. ix. p. 305, 306.]

[Footnote 74: 1 Kings, viii. 63. 2 Chronicles, vii. 5. Joseph.
Antiquitat. Judaic. l. viii. c. 4, p. 431, edit. Havercamp. As the blood
and smoke of so many hecatombs might be inconvenient, Lightfoot, the
Christian Rabbi, removes them by a miracle. Le Clerc (ad loca) is bold
enough to suspect to fidelity of the numbers. * Note: According to the
historian Kotobeddym, quoted by Burckhardt, (Travels in Arabia, p. 276,)
the Khalif Mokteder sacrificed, during his pilgrimage to Mecca, in
the year of the Hejira 350, forty thousand camels and cows, and fifty
thousand sheep. Barthema describes thirty thousand oxen slain, and their
carcasses given to the poor. Quarterly Review, xiii.p.39--M.]

[Footnote 75: Julian, epist. xxix. xxx. La Bleterie has neglected to
translate the second of these epistles.]

[Footnote 76: See the zeal and impatience of the Jews in Gregory
Nazianzen (Orat. iv. p. 111) and Theodoret. (l. iii. c. 20.)]

Yet, on this occasion, the joint efforts of power and enthusiasm were
unsuccessful; and the ground of the Jewish temple, which is now covered
by a Mahometan mosque, [77] still