And indeed the multitude of carcasses that lay in heaps one upon another was a horrible sight, and produced a pestilential stench, which was a hinderance to those that would make sallies out of the city, and fight the enemy: but as those were to go in battle-array, who had been already used to ten thousand murders, and must tread upon those dead bodies as they marched along, so were not they terrified, nor did they pity men as they marched over them nor did they deem this affront offered to the deceased to be any ill omen to themselves but as they had their right hands already polluted with the murders of their own countrymen, and in that condition ran out to fight with foreigners, they seem to me to have cast a reproach upon God himself, as if he were too slow in punishing them for the war was not now gone on with as if they had any hope of victory for they gloried after a brutish manner in that despair of deliverance they were already in. Thus did the miseries of Jerusalem grow worse and worse every day, and the seditious were still more irritated by the calamities they were under, even while the famine preyed upon themselves, after it had preyed upon the people.That the Miseries Still Grew Worse and how the Romans Made an Assault upon the Tower of Antonia. Containing The Interval Of About One Month.įrom The Great Extremity To Which The Jews Were Reduced To The Taking Of Jerusalem By Titus.
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