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    the depth of his unceasing love , and in the sweet smiles of her children playing on the grass . For the morning dreamer hath what dreams he listeth . Meantime the city of Jerusalem had fallen before the sword of Titus , and many wars and changes came to pass ; but Leah ' s mind was filled with one thought and one hope . And the name of Akiba at length reached Leah , and Zahoran her father , comma

    upon them like a sudden beam of light through the window of a house that hath been dark for many years . Zahoran was no longer a rich man , for his lands had been laid waste and his herds destroyed by the fire and the sword and the hunger of war ; but Akiba had become a great Rabbi , and was accounted one of the most learned doctors in the city of Jerusalem . The young men and those even who had passed the meridian of manhood , flocked to receive his instructions ; nor was it long before the number of

    his scholars amounted to some thousands . * So Leah became the wife of the great Rabbi Akiba , and the poor man Zahoran received wealth at his hands ; and the happiness of all of them was very great . For even thus did the passion of love , which so often leads to vain fancies and foolish acts , that cause misery when the fever is over , lead Akiba to great knowledge and to wisdom , which is the right application thereof , and also to riches and joy fulness of heart .

    And Akiba said to Leah , Thou seest that I have done all that it behoved me to do , so that I might obtain thee for my wife . Not of myself have I accomplished this , but by the strong love which God had planted in my soul , making it equal to all high deeds . Now , therefore , that my task is accomplished , let us return to the green valley where I first beheld thee ; thou and thy father and our little child ; that Akiba may devote the rest of his life to thy happiness , and in giving thanks to God , who hath turned the voice of the herdsman into the chief teacher of a

    mighty city , by reason of the high nature wherewith he was endowed , and the pure passion that called forth its unknown powers When V every thing was prepared for their departure , Baroquebas , the leader of a strong faction which had just sprung up in the city , came to Akiba by night , and conversed with him a longtime

    on those matters . Now this Baroquebas had been one of the chief pupils of Akiba , and was a man of subtle wit and an ambitious disposition . He showed to Akiba his claim to be * King of the Jews , and spoke with a wily tongue until Akiba believed in the rightfulness of his cause , and came over to the faction he had created in the city . And Baroquebas persuaded him to remain yet a little while in Jerusalem to support him in his struggle .

    ? The number has been estimated at 24 , 000 ! This is probably a great Hebraism , more consiftent with the grand style of Eastern hyperbole , thun matter of fact But Warned men were , no douht , in much greater request and estimation at that peno * ) than in the ignorant present .

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    050 Akiba .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/46/