 | 1842 - 780 pages
...their future desolation ; but, like men infatuated, without either eyes to see or minds to consider, did not regard the denunciations that God made to...there was a star resembling a sword, which stood over tbo city ; and a couiet that continued a whole year. Thus, also, before the Jews* rebellion, and before... | |
 | 1884 - 812 pages
...Josephus describes these just as if he had set himself to make good the words of Christ. He tells of a ' star resembling a sword which stood over the city, and a comet that continued a whole year.' At the Feast of Pentecost, as the priests were going by night into the inner court of the Temple, they... | |
 | Israel Perkins Warren - 1886 - 312 pages
...resembling these did occur in great numbers immediately before the fall of Jerusalem. " There was," he says, "a star resembling a sword, which stood over the city, and a comet that continued a whole year." "At the ninth hour of the night so great a light shone around the altar and the holy house that it... | |
 | Ernest Hampden-Cook - 1895 - 224 pages
...their future desolation ; but like men infatuated, without cither eyes to see or minds to consider, did not regard the denunciations that God made to...stood over the city, and a comet, that continued a wliole year. Thus also before the Jews' rebellion, when the people were come in great crowds to the... | |
 | John Gotlieb Matteson - 1895 - 648 pages
...number of signs that were seen and heard before the city was taken. Let us notice the following : — "There was a star resembling a sword, which stood...whole year. Thus also, before the Jews' rebellion, when the people were come in great crowds to the feast of unleavened bread, on the eighth day of the... | |
 | John Barbour - 1896 - 646 pages
...signs. 267. ])afowrty ^ere= those forty years. 268. Ner-hand= almost. 269. As Iosaphus recordis : " There was a star resembling a sword, which stood over...the city, and a comet, that continued a whole year." — 'Wars,' Bk. vi. 5, 3. 271. Sterne = star. '' For fyre all cleir, Soyn throu the thik burd can appcir,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1909 - 384 pages
...sights, and great signs from heaven." He tells us that just before the war, a star, resembling a sword, stood over the city, and a comet that continued a whole year ; that " before sunsetting, chariots, and troops of soldiers in their armor, were seen running about... | |
 | Leroy Hahn Stafford - 1919 - 118 pages
...turn to the good. " Before the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD certain tokens indicated coming disaster. "There was a star resembling a sword which stood over...the city, and a comet that continued a whole year ... at the feast of unleavened bread ... so great a light shone round about the altar and the holy... | |
 | Gary W. Kronk - 2009 - 586 pages
...brilliant and powerful." The Jewish writer Flavius Josephus finished Wars of the Jews around 75 and noted, "Thus there was a star resembling a sword, which stood...the city, and a comet, that continued a whole year." The city was Jerusalem and it was destroyed by Titus in 70. SOURCES: Wars of the Jews (75), book 6,... | |
 | Peter Bluer - 2001 - 476 pages
...their fortune with the others, throw themselves into the fire, and were burnt together with the holy Thus there was a star resembling a sword, which stood...over the city, and a comet, that continued a whole yeai^ Days after that feast, on the one and twentieth day of the month Artemisius [Jyar], a certain... | |
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Thus there was a star resembling a sword, which stood over the city, and a comet, that continued a whole year.f Thus also before the Jews... 
