Cruel decrees against Jews. Maimonides sat in the market place of the city, and promised to heal anyone whom all the other physicians had failed to heal. He healed King and was greatly honoured. The Vice-regent, who was greatly beloved by King, hated Maimonides and asked for his death. The King was perplexed because he had promised Maimonides not to harm him, but the Vice-regent advised him to have Maimonides thrown into the limekiln and burnt. The man in charge was told to kill the first man who came from the king. Maimonides himself was sent to tell the man simply to perform the command of the king. But passing a Synagogue, he went in and prayed, and then went to the Feast of the Circumcision at a poor man's house. Afterwards he delivered the message of the king, but the Vice-regent anticipated him unknowingly and was found burnt when Maimonides arrived. The king confessed the might of the God of Israel.
(v. above No. 320.)