... thus, the hair of Bathsheba, who was the mother of the wisest Israelite thoughshe sinned; thus the hair of that mother of Samson, who slew armies single-handed! Badge of Judah, mark of the haughty ... mission to the synagogue and then, with no definite purpose,followed.At the edge of town, where the huddle of huts left off and the gravel and rock and cedar began, he saw the priest dismiss the pair ... The stamp of the elegant simplicity of Cyrus, the Persian, was upon it. The ancient blue and whitemosaics that had been laid by the Parsee builder and the fretwork and twisted pillars were there,...