TO

JERUSALEM.

A Picture of Judaism,

IN THE CENTURY WHICH PRECEDED THE ADVENT OF

OUR SAVIOUR.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF

FREDERICK STRAUSS.

Η ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΙΟΥΔΑΙΩΝ ΕΣΤΙΝ.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:

WELLS AND LILLY-COURT-STREET.

Helow's Pilgrimage

ΤΟ

JERUSALEM.

BOOK III.

THE FEAST OF PENTECOST.

CHAPTER I.

THE SACERDOTAL OFFICE.

THE feast of the Passover was ended. The multitude had returned to their homes, or resumed their occupations in the city. The ashes on the altar of burnt-offering, whose gradual accumulation, during the week of the Passover, had raised them at last into a lofty pyramid, had been cleared away. The days of unleavened bread were past; the people had returned to their ordinary food, and all the glory of the festival seemed to have disappeared from the city.