sephus
arose, but he was spared by the intercession of Titus. The fall of
Jotapata led to the subjugation of Galilee.

When captured, Josephus made to Vespasian the prophecy: "Thou shalt
be emperor--thou and thy son after thee," a prediction soon to be
fulfilled, for in A.D. 69 Vespasian was proclaimed emperor, and the
next year went to Rome, leaving Titus to carry on the war and
subdue Jerusalem. Vespasian himself, it is recorded, released
Josephus, "cutting off his chains," thus relieving him from all
stain of dishonor.

"The capture of Jerusalem by Titus in this campaign," says Hosmer,
"is one of the most memorable events in the history of mankind. It
caused the expulsion of an entire race from its home. The Roman
valor, skill, and persistence were never more conspicuously
displayed. No more desperate resistance was ever opposed to the
eagle-emblemed mistress of the ancient world. There is no event of
ancient history the details of which are more minutely known. The
circumstances in all their appalling features are given to us by
the eye-witness, Josephus, so that we know them as vividly as we do
the events of the career of Grant."

The legions had orders to encamp at the distance of six furlongs from
Jerusalem, at the mount called the Mount of Olives, which lies over
against the city on the east side, and is parted from it by a deep
valley, interposed between them, which is named Cedron.

Now, when hitherto the several parties in the city had been dashing one
against another perpetually, this foreign war, now suddenly come upon
them after a violent manner, put the first stop to their contentions one
against another; and as the seditious now saw with astonishment the
Romans pitching three several camps, they began to think of an awkward
sort of concord, and said one to another: "What do we here, and what do
we mean, when we suffer three fortified walls to be built to coop us in,
that we shall not be able to breathe freely? while the enemy is securely
building a kind of city in opposition to us, and while we sit still
within our own walls and become spectators only of what they are doing,
with our hands idle, and our armor laid by, as if they were about
somewhat that was for our good and advantage. We are, it seems (so did
they cry out), only courageous against ourselves, while the Romans are
likely to gain the city wi