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Show t ot _* ¥ - > 40 . ED Li to this very event;) the sword is sharpened, and it is } sei oe i Po osse 4, { ae s a o& farbished to give it into the hand : P be a and how!,son of man; Hi ee. r +a ¥y: nad Pi <8 fey ~id = / Fae _ ie + exe ’ é ae e a i] ne 4 he -& { at i es: ii aes eS> > a i ue . § +: Lou wet ite AMY ae ; Bhi H ‘| a j vs ea He Ce a cs _—" og a i . <3 . 4 ae “¢ oe 3a : 4 f4 ai | e. eg “ S p= . ¥ ee Le ae, ane q a 4 The whole lower city now in the possession of the Roman legions, (after the respite noted,) was set on es 4 - They even of the higher city remained unabated. insulted and exasperated their enemies, as though afraid the work of vengeance might not be sufliciently exe- . td P i. ~ i ’ te But the insolence of the devoted Jews in a part fire. : ’ i Let antichristian pow- this and tremble! ie ay A i smite ers, yea, let all infidels and gospel despisers, consider Yee le thy thigh ; smite upon shrunk not from the execution! ] lie coe Cry Such, and much more, were the divine denunciations of this very scene, which the infidel Jews would not escape, but would incur! And evena merciful God L oh 4 of the slayer. thy hands together, and let the sword be doubled a I have set the third time; the sword of the slain. point of the sword against ail their gates, that their hearts may faint, and their rains be multiphed: Ah,itis made bright! it is wrapped up for the slaughter.??— ay] ri a JERUSALEM. OF of humanity, ' Lee, "ete A DESTRUCTION iv ic a i cuted. ms - The Romans brought their engines to operate upon ) - ' ry1 the walls of this higher branch of the city, still standing; Before their dewhich soon gave way before them. molition, Titus reconnoitred the city, and its fortifica- tions; and expressed his astonishment that it should He exclaimed, ‘‘ Had not ever fall before his arms. God himself aided our operations, and driven the Jews from their fortresses, it would have been abso- lutely impossible to have taken them. For what could men and the force of engines have done against such towers as these??? Yes, unless their’ Rock them for their iniquities, no enemy vailed against Jerusalem. had sold could have pre- Josephus, who was an eye ‘ All the calamities, witness of all the scene, says; which ever befel any nation, since the beginning of the world, were inferior to the miseries of the Jews at this awful period.” The upper city too fell before the victorious arms of the Roman conquerors. all who had not been forward ‘Titus would have spared in resisting the Romans + and gave his orders accordingly. ow Al M. NESTRUCTION OF JERUSALE . 4 eit P But his soldiers, ca!- Jous to all the feelings slaughtered Sag the mass of the people. aged and sick, as well as ae t beautiful young men, : 1e ae tall and mos 1€ triumph at Rome. spared by Titus to grace his in seventeen were rest, many above the age of ome ed of as slaves. chains to Egypt to be dispos on their amphitheatres, d were reserved to be sacrifice es sham fights, for the in in as cladiators; to be sla oug thr Others were distributed of their conquerors. ol seage the Ail who survived, under the empire. e. venteen, were exposed for sal anded what remained The triumphant general comm ndation, except three of the city, to be razed to its fou ne, Hippocos, and of the most stately towers, Mariam s of the These should stand as monument Asmall Phasael. y. tor vic mavnificence of the place, and of his - also, he com art of the wall of the city at the westt for his garrison. mnanded should be spared, as a rampar to have so efThe other parts of the city he wished ized to have ogn fectually erased, as never to be rec monides relate Ma The Talmud and been inhabited. so removed, that the foundations of the temple were entius Rufus. that the site of it was ploughed by Ter re should not be Thus our Saviour predicted, that ** the | ther.” left one stone upon ano ng during One awful occurrence is noted as transpiri under the © these scenes; that eleven thousand Jews, e (owing wer l, rd of one Fronto, a Roman genera scarcity of provis io their own obstinacy, and to the ions) literally starved to death! Josephus informs that eleven hundred thousand Jews perished in this siege of Jerusalem; that two hundred and thirty-seven thousand perished in that last war in other sieges and battles ; besides multitudes ing a towho perished by famine and pestilence : mak tal of at least fourteen hundred thousand. Some hun- dreds of thousands, in sullen despair, laid violent hands on themselves. About ninety-seven thousand were Relative to the two great captured, and dispersed. leaders of the Jewish factions, Simon and John, they were led to Rome, to grace the triumphof Titus ; af4 |
