openings made for the purpose, and which, when put in motion by lowering the ends, crushed the grapes.  The juice flowed out of the tree by five openings, and fell into a stone vat, from whence it flowed through a channel made of bark and coated with resin, into the species of cistern excavated in the rock where Jesus was confined before his Crucifixion.  At the foot of the winepress, in the stone vat, there was a sort of sieve to stop the skins, which were put on one side.  When they had made their winepress, they filled the bag with grapes, nailed it to the top of the trunk, placed the pestle, and put in motion the side arms, in order to make the wine flow.  All this very strongly reminded me of the Crucifixion, on account of the resemblance between the winepress and the Cross.  They had a long reed, at the end of which there were points, so that it looked like an enormous thistle, and they ran this through the channel and trunk of the tree when there was any obstruction.  I was reminded of the lance and sponge.  There were also some leathern bottles, and vases made of bark and plastered with resin.  I saw several young men, with nothing but a cloth wrapped round their loins like Jesus, working at this winepress.  Japhet was very old; he wore a long beard, and a dress made of the skins of beasts; and he looked at the new winepress with evident satisfaction.  It was a festival day, and they sacrificed on a stone altar some animals which were running loose in the vineyard, young asses, goats, and sheep.  It was not in this place that Abraham came to sacrifice Isaac; perhaps it was on Mount Moriah.  I have forgotten many of the instructions regarding the wine, vinegar, and skins, and the different ways in which everything was to be distributed to the right and to the left; and I regret it, because the veriest trifles in these matters have a profound symbolical meaning.  If it should be the will of God for me to make them known, he will show them to me again.

CHAPTER LVI.

Apparitions on Occasion of the Death of Jesus.

Among the dead who rose from their graves, and who were certainly a hundred in number, at Jerusalem, there were no relations of Jesus.  I saw in various parts of the Holy Land others of the dead appear and bear testimony to the divinity of Jesus.  Thus I saw Sadoch, a most pious man, who had given all his property to the poor and to the Temple, appear to many persons in the neighbourhood of Hebron.  This Sadoch had lived a century before Jesus, and was the founder of a community of Essenians:  he had ardently sighed for the coming of the Messias, and had had several revelations upon the subject.  I saw some others of the dead appear to the hidden disciples of our Lord, and give them different warnings.