So the Essene messengers went back to Jerusalem, and the Christian elders prayed with her, and having blessed her and consigned her to the care of the Most High and His Son, their Lord, departed to Pella, where, as it was fated, through all those dreadful times not a hair of their heads was touched.
When she had parted from them, Miriam sought out her grandfather, whom she found pacing his chamber with a troubled air.
"Why do you look so sad, Miriam ?" he asked.

"Have some of your friends warned you that new sorrows are afoot ?" "Yes, grandfather," and she told him all.
"I do not believe them," he said passionately.

"Say, do you?
Where is their authority?
I tell you that we shall triumph.

Vespasian is now Emperor in Rome, and there will forget this little land; and the rest, those enemies who are of our own house and those without it, we will conquer and kill.

The Messiah will come, the true Messiah.