[Footnote 81: The Arabs boast of an old prophecy preserved
at Jerusalem, and describing the name, the religion, and the
person of Omar, the future conqueror. By such arts the Jews
are said to have soothed the pride of their foreign masters,
Cyrus and Alexander, (Joseph. Ant. Jud. l. xi c. 1, 8, p.
447, 579 - 582.)]