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It is therefore impossible to go distinctly over every instance of
these men's iniquity. I shall therefore speak my mind here at once briefly:
- That neither did any other city ever suffer such miseries, nor did any
age ever breed a generation more fruitful in wickedness than this was,
from the beginning of the world. Finally, they brought the Hebrew nation
into contempt, that they might themselves appear comparatively less impious
with regard to strangers. They confessed what was true, that they were
the slaves, the scum, and the spurious and abortive offspring of our nation,
while they overthrew the city themselves, and forced the Romans, whether
they would or no, to gain a melancholy reputation, by acting gloriously
against them, and did almost draw that fire upon the temple, which they
seemed to think came too slowly; and indeed when they saw that temple burning
from the upper city, they were neither troubled at it, nor did they shed
any tears on that account, while yet these passions were discovered among
the Romans themselves; which circumstances we shall speak of hereafter
in their proper place, when we come to treat of such matters.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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