The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . moment all their visions, and overwhelmedwith sorrow their boastful minds. As for these thingswhich ye behold, he exclaimed, the days will come inthe which there shall not be left one stone upon another,that shall not be thrown down. We can imagine theconsternation with which the disciples listened to thisterrible prediction, and the panic fear which led then toinquire, Master, but when shall these things be ? Willno sign be vouchsafed to us before so awful a destructionfalls upon Jerusalem ? The reader may perhaps wonder why this doom wa
The fall of Jerusalem and the Roman conquest of Judea . moment all their visions, and overwhelmedwith sorrow their boastful minds. As for these thingswhich ye behold, he exclaimed, the days will come inthe which there shall not be left one stone upon another,that shall not be thrown down. We can imagine theconsternation with which the disciples listened to thisterrible prediction, and the panic fear which led then toinquire, Master, but when shall these things be ? Willno sign be vouchsafed to us before so awful a destructionfalls upon Jerusalem ? The reader may perhaps wonder why this doom waspreordained for the Holy City ; why the capital of Judaea—the city of David and Solomon, of the kings and theprophets, the common centre of Gods chosen people—should have been marked out for so signal a calamity. Butit was stained with the blood of the just and the true—its streets had witnessed the sufferings of saints: its in-habitants, rejoicing in their wealth and prosperity, hadturned a deaf ear to the warnings of the Most High; they (250).
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