set-tied his own people therein. It was demolished entirely by the
Babylonians, four hundred and seventy-seven years and six months after
him. And from king David, who was the first of the Jews who reigned
therein, to this destruction under Titus, were one thousand one hundred
and seventy-nine years; but from its first building, till this last
destruction, were two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years; yet
hath not its great antiquity, nor its vast riches, nor the diffusion
of its nation over all the habitable earth, nor the greatness of
the veneration paid to it on a religious account, been sufficient to
preserve it from being destroyed. And thus ended the siege of Jerusalem.

WAR BOOK 6 FOOTNOTES

[1] Reland notes here, very pertinently, that the tower of Antonia stood
higher than the floor of the temple or court adjoining to it; and that
accordingly they descended thence into the temple, as Josephus elsewhere
speaks also. See Book VI. ch. 2. sect. 5.

[2] In this speech of Titus we may clearly see the notions which the
Romans then had of death, and of the happy state of those who died
bravely in war, and the contrary estate of those who died ignobly in
their beds by sickness. Reland here also produces two parallel passages,
the one out of Atonia Janus Marcellinus, concerning the Alani, lib. 31,
that "they judged that man happy who laid down his life in battle;" the
other of Valerius Maximus, lib. 11. ch. 6, who says, "that the Cimbri
and Celtiberi exulted for joy in the army, as being to go out of the
world gloriously and happily."

[3] See the note on p. 809.

[4] No wonder that this Julian, who had so many nails in his shoes,
slipped upon the pavement of the temple, which was smooth, and laid with
marble of different colors.

[5] This was a remarkable day indeed, the seventeenth of Paneruns.
[Tamuz,] A.D. 70, when, according to Daniel's prediction, six hundred
and six years before, the Romans "in half a week caused the sacrifice
and oblation to cease," Daniel 9:27. For from the month of February,
A.D. 66, about which time Vespasian entered on this war, to this very
time, was just three years and a half. See Bishop Lloyd's Tables of
Chronology, published by Mr. Marshall, on this year. Nor is it to be
omitted, what year nearly confirms this duration of the war, that four
years before the war begun was somewhat above seven years five months
before the destruction of Jerusalem, ch. 5. sect. 3.

[6] The