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f themselves, men who had substantial funds at their disposal, who paid for what they wanted. would escape death by flame, because at tN end he would say uncomprehendingly, Of course I accept con. pain clus- tered about the ruins of that once-noble synagogue, and while the boy ran about gawking at the first g ich he would help the Romans crush the Jews in Jerusalem and destroy the nation; in Rome he would live in a house of Vespasian's as an honorary citizen of the empire with

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