Of the Fortress or Castle of Hierusalem.
THence we ascended to visit the Fortress: It is scituated near to the Temple in a most fair seat, fortified with many Towers framed of Stones of extream Greatness. And
The ancient history of the Septuagint written in Greek by Aristeus near two thousand years ago ; being his voyage to Jerusalem, as ambassadour from Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews, concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible by the seventy two interpreters with many other remarkable circumstances, no where else to be found ; first English'd from Greek, by the learned and reverend Dr. John Done ... now revised, and very much corrected from the original.
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- The ancient history of the Septuagint written in Greek by Aristeus near two thousand years ago ; being his voyage to Jerusalem, as ambassadour from Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews, concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible by the seventy two interpreters with many other remarkable circumstances, no where else to be found ; first English'd from Greek, by the learned and reverend Dr. John Done ... now revised, and very much corrected from the original.
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"The ancient history of the Septuagint written in Greek by Aristeus near two thousand years ago ; being his voyage to Jerusalem, as ambassadour from Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews, concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible by the seventy two interpreters with many other remarkable circumstances, no where else to be found ; first English'd from Greek, by the learned and reverend Dr. John Done ... now revised, and very much corrected from the original." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25805.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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by what we could understand and know it is the Bulwark and Strength of the Temple, to the end that if there hapned any Sedition, or im∣petuous hostile Invasion, no Body should enter by force within the Cloyster of the Temple which is near: and is defended by the high Walls of this Fortress, scituated in a Place of precipitate steepness, ha∣ving its Sentinels and Ramparts, with Engins of War.
This place is kept and guarded by a ••arrison of lusty young Souldiers vigorous and strong, which are main∣tained by all the Towers within, and are such as for their merits to their Country, are esteemed of great Re∣putation: They have no Liberty to go out of the Fortress, except upon Holy-dayes; and then with great Solemnity onely part of them, and to relieve the Guards, and they dare let no Person in; for the Captain of the Plac•• there useth such watch∣ful Diligence when he goes forth,
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and amongst them makes such watch and diligent search, that he cannot be circumvented by any Spy, as it hapned to us; for but two of us could get admitatnce, and that with∣out Arms and by great Intreaties, and only to see the Sacrifices: for he told us, and that with an Oath, that all those who are of this Garison, which are in number five hundred, have sworn to admit, but at most five Persons at a time: Because the con∣servation and safety of the Temple consists in the keeping of this Fort, which if it should be taken and kept, the Temple had no other Security.