Mosheim 
and Moylc 
390 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, foundations now " hnri^ hare and naked,'' were 
VIII. ^ ^ 
^ -,- ■ / those of the temple built by Herod; in direct 
opposition to authenticated records concerning 
their demolition by Titus, who commanded his 
soldiers to dig up the foundations both of the 
temple and the city '. ** Both the, Jewish Talmud and 
Maimonides affirm," says Wliitby^, " that Terentius 
Rufus, the captain of his arm}^ caused a plough- 
share to rase the soil whereon the foundations of 
Obierva- ^]^g temple stood." The words of Mosheim. and 
tions of '^ 
of the learned and acute Moyle, with regard to 
the miracle itself, are well worthy of being cited 
upon the present occasion : and if ihe foundations 
here alluded to be actually the work of Julians 
masons, as the opus reticulatum seems to prove 
they were, the observations of those celebrated 
writers will be read with more than usual 
interest; for bothTkfo^AemandA/bj/Ze have always 
ranked among the most candid inquirers after 
truth. *'A11, however," says Mosheim^, "who 
(1) Joseph, de Bell. Jud. See /A'Aiffc^'i General Preface ; JVest on 
the Resurrection, Lond. 1807; &c. &c. 
(2) Gen. Pref. as cited by TVest. 
(3) This passage is taken literally from Maclaine's Translation of 
Mosheim, vol. I. p. 332, Lond. 1733. Mosheim's words are : ** Sed aqud 
mente qui rem consider ar e volent, hauddiffic alter sentient accsdendum ad 
eos esse, qui prcepotenti Supremi Numinis volurJafi earn tribuunt ; nihilque 
afferre superatu difficile quos, vel ad caussas naturales, vel ad artes el 
dolos prodigium hoc referre, juvat." Moshemii H\ii. 'Eccics. Saec. 4. 
Par. 1. c 1. p. 148. Helmstad. 1755. 
