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And now did the Idumeans make an acclamation to what Simon had said;
but Jesus went away sorrowful, as seeing that the Idumeans were against
all moderate counsels, and that the city was besieged on both sides. Nor
indeed were the minds of the Idumeans at rest; for they were in a rage
at the injury that had been offered them by their exclusion out of the
city; and when they thought the zealots had been strong, but saw nothing
of theirs to support them, they were in doubt about the matter, and many
of them repented that they had come thither. But the shame that would attend
them in case they returned without doing any thing at all, so far overcame
that their repentance, that they lay all night before the wall, though
in a very bad encampment; for there broke out a prodigious storm in the
night, with the utmost violence, and very strong winds, with the largest
showers of rain, with continued lightnings, terrible thunderings, and amazing
concussions and bellowings of the earth, that was in an earthquake. These
things were a manifest indication that some destruction was coming upon
men, when the system of the world was put into this disorder; and any one
would guess that these wonders foreshowed some grand calamities that were
coming.
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