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Title: Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Burnfield, George
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Toronto C.B. Robinson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e trials in the nearfuture. Can we wonder, therefore, that the love of family andlife proved too powerful for some who had only reached thealpha of Christian knowledge ? But there were men who hadimperilled their lives already. Where, were they ? Luke andTimothy, and Epaphroditus and Aristarchus, were probably farfrom Rome doing the work of the Church. Some of them mayhave been in prison and unable to help the mighty prisoner onthe Palatine, bywords and deeds of true devotion. If eloquenceand tact, and the Grace of God could have been exercised overa soul not already dead to all noble impulses and all goodness,there might have been hope even of Neros turning to the Lord-No such man as Paul ever spoke in that hall before. He wasfearless of death. It is more than probable he was releasedfrom prison. I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.But in 64, A.D., the city was fired, then came the days of awfulpersecution. Then probably he was condemned, cast into the life ;:;-/„; m 1 . W
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20 EOME. Mamerfcine, and finally, according to tradition, put to death atTre Fontane. A narrow path extends through gardens of orange andlemon trees and among the ilex, and shrubs, and flowers, downthe gentle slopes of the Palatine on the south-west. A few roomsare standing about ten feet square. The walls are frescoedand covered with sketches and writing done by the scholarswhen the master was out, or his attention engaged. Thesewere the schoolrooms in which the slaves and servants of theImperial House were taught. It faced the Tiber and theCircus Maximus, and the Aventine Hill. The view from theschool is one of great beauty. There would be no benches,probably. The pupils would sit on the floor or in thecolonnades. The master would also sit with his back againstthe wall, or one of those pillars whose bases are still visible,and teach them from the early poets and philosophers, or fromthe more recent works of Horace and Virgil. The tastes andamusements of schoolboys haVe been the same

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