| | Jerusalem: In Early Christianity - FARMS Papers |
 | | The Jews of Alexandria became associated with one of these factions of the Emperor Phocas, who ordered his general Bonossus to suppress the corresponding faction in Jerusalem by converting all Jews by force. |
 | | While pitched battles raged in the streets, a Persian army appeared at the gates, sent by Chosroes, the pro-Christian monarch, seeking vengeance on the treacherous Phocas for the murder of his friend Mauritius. |
 | | The Jews regarded this as a timely deliverance by a nation that had succored them before and sided with the Persiansan act not of treachery (as Christian writers would have it) but of war, since Phocas had already called for their extermination as a people. |
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