BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
organizing the best of the ephebes led them under the hat" This College, at the very foot of the Acropolis, reminds that the Aglaurium at Athens, where the ephebes took their oaths, was also at the foot of the Acropolis.
The point of the situation appears in the contests of the following years, where Antiochus and his High Priest sack the city and appear from time to time holding the Akra or citadel against the hostility of the orthodox Jews. It is the Greek Jews who twice admit Antiochus to the city and it is the Akra which the Hellenized Jews hold for him against the orthodox Jews. To one who recalls the ephebic system the whole incident is vivid with suggestion—the library being, of course, if one of the lesser, yet no less an inevitable, feature of the gymnasium and ephebian.
When with the aid of the Hellenized Jews Antiochus had sacked the Temple
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