The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

grain was now in th^ hands, and the harbour and
river police com* mitted to their charge. Two
quarters in the city are named as Bp^ cially Jewish
—not, however, in the sense of their being
confined to them. Their Synagogues, surrounded by
shady trees, stood in all parts of the city. But the
chief glory of the Jewish community in Egypt, of
which even the Palestiniaiis boasted, was the great
central Synagogue, built in the shape of a basilica,
with double colonnadci and so large that it needed
a signal for those most distant to know the proper
moment for the responses. The different trade
guilds sat there together, so that a stranger would
at once know where to find Jewish employers or
fellow-workmen.® In the choir of this Jewish
•sukk.ni cathedral stood seventy chairs of state,
encrusted with precious stones, for the seventy
elders who constituted the eldership of
Alexandriai on the model of the great Sanhedrin in
Jerusalem.
It is a strange, almost inexplicable £Rct^ that the
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