Excerpt from The Restoration of the Jews: The Crisis of All Nations It was in this century that the Jews, as we have before noticed, received a most sensible blow in the total sup pression of the patriarchs. Theodosius and Valentinian were the two monarchs who appropriated that revenue, which they had been wont to draw from their scattered brethren, to their own treasury, by which means the. Patriarchal dignity was more effectually sn pressed than if it had been directly annulled by an e iet. In the IV est, the Jews enjoyed the full exercise of their religion under Honorius, who, much to his honour, enacted a law in favour of toleration. A strange affair happened about this time in the island of Candia, where the Jews were very rich numerous. One Moses pretending to be the Messiah, ran up and down and through every town and village of the island, persuading the Jews to follow him, and to be ready for. Him on the day, and at the place ap pointed, and he would lead them safe through the sea to Canaan. A vast multitude were deluded, and threw themselves from a precipice into the deep, and were drowned. It is pretended that a great number of Jews were, about this time, converted to Christianity by means of divers miracles, which were wrought by the virtue of the holy relics brought from Jerusalem. At Minorca. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.