388 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP. Chrysostom, alluding to the fact, as notorious, 
^ y.i / and attested by living witnesses, says', *' Yea, 
THEY MAY VIEW THE FOUNDATIONS LYING 
STILL BARE AND NAKED; AND IF YOU ASK 
THE REASON, YOU WILL MEET WITH NO OTHER 
ACCOUNT BESIDES THAT WHICH I HAVE GIVEN." 
From these concurring testimonies, and from 
the extraordinary remaining evidence of the 
opus reticulatum, it can hardly be denied but 
that an appeal may be made to these remains as 
the very work to which Chrysostom alludes. The 
words oi Ammianus'^ seem to warrant a similar 
conclusion: " Metuendi globi Jiammarum prope 
FUNDAMENTA crebHs assullibus erumpentes." On 
what authority Mosheim asserts ^ that the Jews, 
who had " set about this important ivork, were 
obliged to desist, before they had even begun to lay 
the foundations of the sacred edifice," does not 
appear; except it be upon a passage of Rufinus*, 
Warburton, who has cited this passage*, is 
(l) Chrysostom. advers. Jud. &c. as cited by Whitby in his General 
Preface. See also West on the Resurrection ; and Newton on the 
Prophecies, {Works,) vol. I. p. 447. Land. 1782. 
(3) Ammian. Marcellin. ubi supra. 
(3) Moshemii Hist. Eccles. Sac. iv. Par. 1. c, 1. Helmstad. 1755. 
(4) * Apertis igitur fundamentis calces csEmentaque adhibita : nihil 
omnin6 deerat, quin die poster^, veteribus deturbatis, nova jaccrent 
fundamenta." Rufin. Hist. Eccl. lib. x. c. 37. 
{h) Warburton's Julian, p. 1Z. Note (^). Lond. MhO, 
