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When this accident had unexpectedly happened, the minds of both parties
were variously affected; for though one would expect that the Jews would
be discouraged, because this fall of their wall was unexpected by them,
and they had made no provision in that case, yet did they pull up their
courage, because the tower of Antonia itself was still standing; as was
the unexpected joy of the Romans at this fall of the wall soon quenched
by the sight they had of another wall, which John and his party had built
within it. However, the attack of this second wall appeared to be easier
than that of the former, because it seemed a thing of greater facility
to get up to it through the parts of the former wall that were now thrown
down. This new wall appeared also to be much weaker than the tower of Antonia,
and accordingly the Romans imagined that it had been erected so much on
the sudden, that they should soon overthrow it: yet did not any body venture
now to go up to this wall; for that such as first ventured so to do must
certainly be killed.
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