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Eusebius of Caesarea, on Luke 21:20
Eusebius of Caesarea · c. A.D. 260–339
Luke 21:20 · Douay-Rheims
“And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army; then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.”
On this verse:
“For so in truth it was, that when the Romans came and were taking the city, many multitudes of the Jewish people perished in the mouth of the sword; as it follows, And they shall fall by the edge of the sword. But still more were cut off by famine. And these things happened at first indeed under Titus and Vespasian, but after them in the time of Hadrian the Roman general, when the land of their birth was forbidden to the Jews. Hence it follows, And they shall be led away captive into all nations. For the Jews filled the whole land, reaching even to the ends of the earth, and when their land was inhabited by strangers, they alone could not enter it; as it follows, And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.