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Show DESTRUCTION OF DESTRUCTION JERUSALEM. OF JERUSALEM. O¢ 8 ' : Titus finding the fire had not yet reached q i ‘ } 1th is 2 # Jf 4 3 , ' ; to: : ie si ¥ renew his nt iF :} 7S } | i ye - ; ‘ paee ft i i : t fé WH eeee ; 3 aefH 3 Bait vu Hae Mt i i Cats ais , : a , nee é = b ; ¥ < %4 its ie at i a ee ae fe + ‘ x * “ef — n P sae bd dy 3 4 e - en a> 4 7 a «9 “oe Be E ¥ | ei P| 4 <i 7 yes 2 the confiagration soon became gen- eral. One needs a heart of steel to contemplate the Tie triumphant Roman solscenes which followed. diers were in a most ungovernable rage and fury.— were indeed prepared instruments for their The Romans slew of the Jews all before them; sparing They seemed determined neither age, sex orrank. -) S ci combined to render them deaf and most furious. <A inthe of posts door the soldier succeeded in firing work, to execute the most signal vengeance of Heaven; the flame of which was now reaching its height! ey ae buil- and appointed an officer to punish any who should disobey. Butall his renewed efforts were still in vain. The feelings of his soldiery were utterly unmanageable. Plunder, revenge, and slaughter had They 5 2 * ¢ eliorts to save this stupendous pile of ner temple, and J in ‘ wretchedness. inner ding, though so many of the out-buildings were gone. He even eutreated his soldiers to extinguish the flames, oe : *. the temple, entered it with his superior officers, and surveyed its magnificence with silent admiration. He found itto exceed all he bad heard. This view: led him to g to annibilate'the Jewish race onthe spot. Priests and common people; those who surrendered, and those who still fought ; all were alike subjects of an indisThe fire of the tempie at length criminate slaughter. completely enveloped the stupendous pile of building. It imThe fury of the flames exceeded description. an idea that the whole pressed on distant spectators city wasinflames. The ensuing disorder and tumult, pronounces to have been such as to batile Josephus ‘The outcry of the Roman legions all description. And the Jews Pe was as great as they could make. ding themselves a prey to the sword, exerted themselves furyof both fire an in the acceuts wildest 0 ‘The people in the erty, and those on o screaming. ab hill, mutually responded to each other in groans People screeches. who through famine. derived dented scenes —_ of horror lad seemed new strengih and just expiring from uppreces death, to ucpiore their From mountain to mountain, and from places distant, lamentations As the temple was raging element, the in that part of sinking echoed to each other. under the mount on whichit fury of the stood seemed it, (says the historian) to “ impress the idea of a lake of liquid fire!” The blood of the slain raninrivulets. The earth around became covered with the slain; and the victorious Romans trainpied over those piles of the dead, in pursuit of the sands who were fieeing from the points of thoutheir swords. Ina word, the roar and crackling of fire; the shrieks of thousands in despair; the dying groans of thousands, and the sights which met the eye whereever 1t was turned, were such as never before had an parallel on earth. all antecedent They probably as much exceeded scenes of horror, as the gmt which occasioned them, in their treatment of the Lord of Y et A ad. Reo. Glory, exceeded all guilt: ever before known among men. A tragical event had transpired worthy of particular detail. Before the temple was wrapped in flames, an impostor appeared among the Jews, asserting a divine commission; and that if the people would follow him ce temple, they would see signs, wonders and deverance. , About S1X thousand (mostly women and children) followed him, and were in the galleries of the temple, waiting for this promised deliverance, when fire was set to that building. on Regen Notone escaped. in the conflagration of the sacred All were edifice! Vhat multitudes are by false prophets plunged in eter- nal fire! The os place of the t empie| now ol ruins. Here terminated the presenteda vast pile clory and ex; t ; oa this stupendous Pé wis building, he ding, thisthis t type eeof the bodyHUN see i is edi ; this type of the Millennium,of Christ and : — es it reached its close, after the period of of ne thousand a thirty ne and é —_ ‘om thirty by Solomon; ye: years, re from the time : of its and of six hundred and thirty- nine years, from its being rebuilt in the days of Hagae ae ae iat it Should years captivity. Jt is Biotatn « be reduced toto ashes ashe not only soon ’ ktae arc. after |
