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Now although any one would justly lament the destruction of such
a work as this was, since it was the most admirable of all the works that
we have seen or heard of, both for its curious structure and its magnitude,
and also for the vast wealth bestowed upon it, as well as for the glorious
reputation it had for its holiness; yet might such a one comfort himself
with this thought, that it was fate that decreed it so to be, which is
inevitable, both as to living creatures, and as to works and places also.
However, one cannot but wonder at the accuracy of this period thereto relating;
for the same month and day were now observed, as I said before, wherein
the holy house was burnt formerly by the Babylonians. Now the number of
years that passed from its first foundation, which was laid by king Solomon,
till this its destruction, which happened in the second year of the reign
of Vespasian, are collected to be one thousand one hundred and thirty,
besides seven months and fifteen days; and from the second building of
it, which was done by Haggai, in the second year of Cyrus the king, till
its destruction under Vespasian, there were six hundred and thirty-nine
years and forty-five days.
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1 THE GREAT DISTRESS THE JEWS WERE IN UPON THE CONFLAGRATION OF THE HOLY HOUSE. CONCERNING A FALSE PROPHET, AND THE SIGNS THAT PRECEDED THIS DESTRUCTION.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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