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ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
penies.” On what authority Mosheim asserts(k) that the Jews, who had u set about 
this important work, were obliged to desist , before they had even begun today the founda¬ 
tions of the sacred edifice does not appear, except it be upon the following passage 
from Rufinus,(l) “ A pcrtisigitur fundamentis calces 'cementaqtie adhibita: nihil omnino 
deeral , quin die postera, vettribus deturbatus nova jacereni fundamental Warburton, 
who has cited this passage,(in) is nevertheless careful in weighing the evidence, as to 
the fact, to consider the testimony of Chrysostom as of a superior nature, being that 
©f a living witness; whereas Rufinus, who lived in the subsequent age, could only re¬ 
late things as they had been transmitted to him ; therefore the appeal made by Chry¬ 
sostom to the existence of the foundations may be supposed to supersede any infer¬ 
ence likely to be derived from these words of Rufinus, as to their not having been 
Said before the prodigy took place; and the present appearance of the opus reticulatum 
in the masonry, proves that the workmanship is strictly Roman.(n) Prideaux, in his 
Letter to the Deists,” makes indeed a bold assertion, and without veracity, in say¬ 
ing, that there “ is not non left the least remainder of the ruins of the temple, to show 
where it once stood; and that those who travel to Jerusalem, have no other mark, 
whereby to find it out, but the Mahometan mosque erected on the same plat by Omar 
There is in fact a much better mark ; nafhely, the mark of Julian's discomfiture , in the 
remains of Roman masonry upon the spot; and if this be disputed, it can only be so, 
by admitting that the foundations now “ lying bare and naked ” were those of the tem¬ 
ple 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.(o) “ Roth the Jewish Talmud and Maimonides affirm,” says 
Whitby,(p) “ that Terentius Rufus, the captain of his army, caused a ploughshare to 
raise the soil whereon the foundations of the temple stood.” 
After all that hasbeen said, let the reader bear carefully in mind, that the prophecy 
of Christ, existing in full blaze, needs not any support from the establishment of 
Julian’s miraculous discomfiture, (q) The ruins of the temple, and of the city; the 
abolition of the Mosaical dispensation ; the total overthrow and dispersion of the 
Jews; constitute altogether an existing miracle, perplexing the sceptic with incon¬ 
testable proof of the divine origin of our religion. 
F. 372- A curious undescribed herbaceous plant, of the natural order of boragineae t 
was found by the author in Jerusalem, upon the very spot which is exhibited by the 
monks as the judgment seat of Pontius Pilate. It has the habit of a lycopsis , but the 
Sowers of a symphtum , and. seeds attached nearly as in cynogiossum; but the form is 
peculiar to itself. Toe fruits of the order not having been yet thoroughly examined, 
we have for the present arranged it in symphytum ; denominating it, from the remark¬ 
able spur near the base of the seed, symphytum calbarati-m. The stems are very 
slender and crooked; the leaves an inch to an inch and a half in length; the flowers 
*ipon pedicles, turned to one side, with the cailyx nearly half an inch long, but shorter 
than the bract at the base of the pedicle. 
Symphytum caulibus flexuosis debilibus; foliis lato-lanceolatis, integris, clliatis,. 
hirsutis ; raeemiis bractatis secundis laxis; bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis; corollis ca- 
lyce hirsute brevioribus, acutis ; seminibus obtuse triangulis calcaratis, scabris. 
(k) See Maclaine's Translation , vol. I. p. 332. 
(l) Rifrn Hist. Eccl. lib, x. c. -37. 
(m) Warburton' 1 s Julian,p. 37. Note(h.) London, 1750. 
(n) Wide Viiruv. lib. ii. c. 8. Amst. 1549, Plin. Hist. Nat lib. xxxvi. c. 22. L 
Bat. 1635. Winkelmann Hist, de VArt. &c. &c. 
fo) Joseph, dc Bell. Jud. See Whitby's General Preface. West on the Resurrection. 
London, 1807; &c. 
(p) Gen. Prcf. as cited by West. 
(q) Yet even this is attested by four contemporary writers', by Ammianus Marcellvms . 
by Chrysostom \ by Gregory of NarianxSii- and by Ambrose) bishop of Milan. 
