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On the Theophania
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843
22. From the fifth Book of Josephus.
“It would be impossible to give an account of each and every of their iniquities singly; we say then summarily, that no (other) city (ever) suffered all these things; and, that there never was a generation so fruitful in vices as this: for they destroyed the city itself! and (were the cause) that the Romans should be recorded,—as forced by them against their own wills,—to this sad victory! They accordingly dragged them on forthwith, unopposed, to the Temple; and viewed from the upper city, the fire that was burning within it.” Nor were they pained, nor did they weep at these things! Because, “there should be at that time great tribulation, such, that its like existed not since the beginning of the world.” This very thing was foretold by our Saviour, which this writer attests! the whole of which was fully brought to pass forty years afterwards, in the times of Vespasian the Roman Emperor. Our Saviour moreover, added to His predictions,—determining the time,—how long Jerusalem should be trampled on by the Gentiles; for He said, “Until the times of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled:” intimating by this, the end of the world.