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Now when Titus was come into this [upper] city, he admired not only
some other places of strength in it, but particularly those strong towers
which the tyrants in their mad conduct had relinquished; for when he saw
their solid altitude, and the largeness of their several stones, and the
exactness of their joints, as also how great was their breadth, and how
extensive their length, he expressed himself after the manner following:
"We have certainly had God for our assistant in this war, and it was
no other than God who ejected the Jews out of these fortifications; for
what could the hands of men or any machines do towards overthrowing these
towers?" At which time he had many such discourses to his friends;
he also let such go free as had been bound by the tyrants, and were left
in the prisons. To conclude, when he entirely demolished the rest of the
city, and overthrew its walls, he left these towers as a monument of his
good fortune, which had proved his auxiliaries, and enabled him to take
what could not otherwise have been taken by him.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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