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

irrepressible boastful talker as the ^ tinkling
cymbal of the world.' He had studied, seen, and
heard everything—even, on three occasions, the
mysterious sound on the Colossus of Memnon, as
the sun rose upon it! At least, so he graved upon
the Colossus itself, for the information of all
generatLons.' Such was the man on whom the
Alexandrians conferred the freedom of their city,
to whom they entrusted their most important
affairs, and whom they extolled as the victorious,
the laborious, the new Homer.' There can be little
doubt, that the popular favour was partly due to
Apion's virulent attacks upon the Jews. His
grotesque accounts of their history and religion
held them up to contempt. But his real object was
to rouse the fanaticism of the populace against the
Jews. Every year, so he told them, it was the
practice of the Jews to get hold of some
unfortunate Hellene, whom ill-chance might bring
into their hands, to fatten him for the year, and then
to sacrifice him, partaking of his entrails, and
burying the body, while during these Horrible rites
they took a fearful oath of perpetual enmity to the