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| Chapter XLVII.—Desolation of Judæa foretold.
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Chapter XLVII.—Desolation of Judæa
foretold.
That the land of the Jews,
then, was to be laid waste, hear what was said by the Spirit of prophecy.
And the words were spoken as if from the person of the people wondering
at what had happened. They are these: “Sion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation. The house of our sanctuary has become a curse,
and the glory which our fathers blessed is burned up with fire, and all
its glorious things are laid waste: and Thou refrainest Thyself at these
things, and hast held Thy peace, and hast humbled us very
sore.”1864
And ye are
convinced that Jerusalem has been laid waste, as was predicted. And
concerning its desolation, and that no one should be permitted to inhabit
it, there was the following prophecy by Isaiah: “Their land is
desolate, their enemies consume it before them, and none of them shall
dwell therein.”1865
And that it is guarded by you
lest any one dwell in it, and that death is decreed against a Jew
apprehended entering it, you know very well.1866
| 1866 [Ad hominem, referring to the cruel
decree of Hadrian, which the philosophic Antonines did not annul.]
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