Maps

“Here, then, among the ruins of Zion, still lingers a remnant of the chosen people — but how changed their circumstances! Instead of the ‘mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificier, and the eloquent orator,’ we see a despised body, chiefly of exiles, crouching under general dislike and persecution; yet with inflexible tenacity clinging to the spot which recalls their past greatness, and inspires visionary hopes of future domination.”