 | Daniel Dana Buck - 1856 - 480 pages
...succeed in obtaining the mastery over the city and temple. " Besides these," continues the history, " a few days after that feast, on the one and twentieth day of the month Artemisius, [Jyar, second month of the ecclesiastical year,] a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared.... | |
 | Daniel Denison Whedon - 1871 - 420 pages
...chap. 20. 23. rfChap. 19. 32.— «Chap. 22. 30; 25. 26. stood it: that the security of their lioly house was dissolved of its own accord, and that the...gate was opened for the advantage of their enemies." The gate is now witnessing one sin, or rather one part of the great sin for which that predicted ruin... | |
 | John Jones (of Peckham.) - 1861 - 758 pages
...thereby open the gates of happiness. But the men of learning understood it that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that...foreshowed the desolation that was coming upon them." — Josephus. To satisfy some, whose minds have not been directed to the truth and possibility of the... | |
 | Francis John Bodfield Hooper - 1861 - 600 pages
...common people to be a very happy omen. But the learned understood by it, that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that...of their enemies. So these publicly declared, that the signal foreshowed the desolation that was coming upon them. Moreover, a few days after that festival,... | |
 | Charles Timins - 1862 - 400 pages
...the vulgar deemed it a happy prodigy, " the men of learning understood it, that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that...their enemies. So these publicly declared that this 1 XD 63 was the first of a series of earthquakes premonitory of the grand catastrophe which overwhelmed... | |
 | Evan Powell Meredith - 1864 - 634 pages
...was so interpreted by the sacred Scribes as to portend those events that followed immediately upon it Besides these ; a few days after that feast, on the one and twentieth day of the month Artemisius (Jyar), a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared. I suppose the account of it would... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1869 - 612 pages
...open them the gale of happiness. But the men of learning understood it, that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that the gate uas opened for the advantage of their enemies. So these publicly declared that the signal foreshowed... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1871 - 748 pages
...open to them the gate of happiness. But the men of learning understood it, that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that the gate was opened for the advantage of the enemy; certainly this latter interpretation seems more reasonable. These publicly declared that... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1875 - 606 pages
...open to them the gate of happiness. But the men of learning understood it, that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that...enemies. So these publicly declared, that this signal foreshewed the desolation that was coming upon them. Besides these, a few days after that feast, on... | |
 | Daniel Denison Whedon - 1875 - 414 pages
...Ver. Il ; chap. 20. 23. </ Chap. 19. 32. e Chap. 22. 30 ; 25. 26. stood it: that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that...gate was opened for the advantage of their enemies." The gate is now witnessing one sin, or rather one part of the great sin for which that predicted ruin... | |
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God did thereby open them the gate of happiness. But the men of learning understood it, that the security of their holy house was dissolved of its own accord, and that the gate was opened for the advantage of their enemies. So these publicly declared,... 
