Calamity In The Odyssey

and informed him that from the beginning of the siege, which was April 14th to the first of July following, one hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty dead bodies has been carried through one gate only, which he had guarded. Soon after this, several respectable individuals deserted to the Romans and told Titus that the whole number of the poor who had been cast out of the different gate, were not less than six hundred thousand. The reports of these calamities affected Titus, who then raised up his hands to heaven, and appealed to God, solemnly protesting that he had not been the cause of these horrible tragedies, which indeed the Jews, by their unexampled wickedness, rebellion, and obstinacy, had brought down upon their own heads.
But God wanted otherwise, because now was the arrival of the fatal day which is referred to in Luke 21:22. A Roman soldier urged to destroy the temple, as he said, by the divine impulse, regardless of the command of Titus. The soldier climbed on the shoulders of another soldier and threw a multiple flaming torches into the golden window of the temple, which instantly set the temple on fire. The Romans willfully deaf to Titus’s orders spread the fire wider and wider. Determined by the fiercest impulses of revenge against the Jews. The rushed furiously upon the temple, slaying Jews with the sword, trampling other under their feet, or crushing them to death against the walls. Many, falling amongst the smoking ruins of the porches and galleries of the temple, were suffocated by the smoke. The unarmed poor, and even the sick were slaughtered without mercy. Multitudes of the dead and dying were thrown around the altar, which was formerly fortified for protection, while the steps to the temple were literally drenched in
was the decisive event of the First Jewish-Roman War. The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Alexander as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem. In the Siege of Jerusalem, the great Jewish Temple was destroyed. The Temple of Jerusalem had a long and tiresome history of being constantly rebuilt and then destroyed time and time again. During the siege of Jerusalem, the Jewish Temple, which was built by Herod the Great, was completely destroyed. The destruction of Herod's temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by Titus and Vespasian was foretold in astonishing detail by passages in the Book of Ezekiel. Seemingly written to bear witness to the destruction of Solomon's temple by the Babylonians, the wording of Ezekiel's predictions pointed, instead, to a similar catastrophe farther in the future. The correlating dates for both events coupled with Ezekiel's almost verbatim account of the loss of the second temple tie both destructions to the same prophecy ¬ the dispersion to Babylon foreseen by