“Why can’t you Jews accept Roman order and Roman prosperity? What more can we do for you than build roads and bring fresh water and make your merchants and traders rich? Yet you slit the throats of our sons in the street. Do we proscribe the practice of your religion? Does Rome insist that you worship her gods, or even pay notice of them? No! Your temple is the greatest in all the East. Your scholars and priests secure fortunes via the commerce mandated and monopolized under your laws and our arms and protection. By heaven, I command the imperial garrison of Jerusalem, yet I cannot make a
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