The Destruction of Jerusalem
Dean Farrar (1831-1903) on the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70: “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate!” And has not that denunciation been fearfully fulfilled? Who does not catch an echo of it in the language of Tacitus – “Expassac repente delubri fores, et audita major humana vox excedere Deos.” Speaking of the murder […]
