'What more than all else incited them to the Of the city, and made use of their saws, and opened that gate which was So they secretly went out of the Temple to Noise of the wind, and that not inferior sound of the thunder, did hereĪlso conspire with their designs, that the noise of the saws was not While it came into the heads of the Zealots to make use of theīelonging to the Temple, and to cut the bars of the gates to pieces. Terrible, Ananus gave the guards in the cloisters leave to go to sleep Proved both ill conjectures at what was to come. Without fighting, and that God acted as a general for them but truly Ananus and his party thought that they had Taking arms, and that they would not escape punishment for their making Would guess that these wonders foreshowed some grand calamities that Men, when the system of the world was put into this disorder and any Things were a manifest indication that some destruction was coming upon Showers of rain, with continued lightnings, terrible thunderings, andĬoncussions and bellowings of the earth, that was in an earthquake. Night, with the utmost violence, and very strong winds, with the Chronology of the War According to Jospehus: Part 6, The Factions Chronology of the War According to Josephus Part 6: The Factions Battle for Power January 68 - May 70 CEĬhronological Table 'There broke out a prodigious storm

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