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Soon afterwards the Jews renewed their malevolent and impious
practices against the Christians, and drew down upon themselves
deserved punishment. At a place named Inmestar, situated between
Chalcis and Antioch in Syria, the Jews were amusing themselves in
their usual way with a variety of sports. In this way they indulged in
many absurdities, and at length impelled by drunkenness they were
guilty of scoffing at Christians and even Christ himself; and in
derision of the cross and those who put their trust in the Crucified
One, they seized a Christian boy, and having bound him to a cross,
began to laugh and sneer at him. But in a little while becoming so
transported with fury, they scourged the child until he died under
their hands. This conduct occasioned a sharp conflict between them and
the Christians; and as soon as the emperors were informed of the
circumstance, they issued orders to the governor of the province to
find out and punish the delinquents. And thus the Jewish inhabitants
of this place paid the penalty for the wickedness they had committed in
their impious sport.
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