7. How did the Jews bring punishment on themselves? 8. How did they misread the prophecies? 9. How had our Lord predicted their self-deception?--Matt. xxiv. 5-11. 10. What Roman was sent against them P 11. How was he called off? 12. What warning was thus given?--Luke, xxi. 20, 21. 13. How did the Christians profit by the warning? 14. How were our Lord's predictions of fearful sights and signs from Heaven fulfilled? 15. Why was the city more than usually filled? 16. Who was the Roman general? 17. In what year did Titus besiege Jerusalem? 18. How had the Jews called down vengeance on themselves? 19. How had our Lord mourned for them?--Luke, xiii. 34.--xix, 41. 20. How had St. Paul mourned for them?--Rom. ix. 2,3. 21. How had the manner of the siege been predicted?--Deut. xxviii. 52. 22. How had the dreadful famine been foretold?--Luke, xix. 43. 23. What was the state of the city?--Deut. xxviii. 53-56.--Lam. ii. 20, 21. 24. How was the entrance effected into the Temple? 25. What had been the intention of Titus with regard to the Temple? 26. Why could not the Temple be saved? 27. What condition was the city found to be in? 28. What prophecy was fulfilled?--Matt. xxiv. 2. 29. What became of the treasures of the Temple? 30. What became of the Jews? 31. How had their dispersion been predicted?--Deut. xxviii. 64-68.--Ps. lix. 11. 32. How have they lived ever since? 33. What warning does St. Paul give the Gentiles?--Rom. xi. 18. 34. Why were the Jews so utterly rejected? 35. Who were accepted in their stead? 36. How had the acceptance of the sons of Japhet been foretold?--Gen. ix. 27. LESSON XXIV. 1. What were the events of Domitian's persecution? 2. How was St. John a martyr in will? 3. What was revealed to St. John in a vision? 4. Where was the latter part of St. John's life spent? 5. What were the instances of St. John's love? 6. What are the writings of St. John? 7. In what year did he die? 8. What were the habits of the early Christians? 9. How did they meet for worship? 10. What was their practice on the Lord's Day? 11. How did they arrange themselves at their assemblies? 12. How did the heathen try to find out what they did? 13. Why did Trajan dislike them so much? 14. What had befallen the old Roman temper?--_Dan_. ii. 41. 15. Who was the great martyr of Trajan's persecution? 16. What is told us of St. Ignatius as a child? 17. What is a Father of the Church? 18. How was St. Ignatius put to death? 19. What did he say of himself? 20. Who was St. John's other pupil? 21. What had been said to St. Polycarp in the Revelation?--Rev. ii. 10. 22. In what persecution did St. Polycarp suffer? 23. What did he say of himself at the tribunal? 24. What was his last thanksgiving? 25. What was the manner of his death? 26. What was the story of the Thundering Legion? LESSON XXV. 1. How had our Lord forewarned His followers of their sufferings?--_Matt_. x. 16, 17.--_John_, xvi. 2.