CHAPTER XVIII.
SIEGE OF JOTAPATA.—FALL OF JERUSALEM.
War—Sieges—Heroism—Fall of Jotapata—The Lot—Horrors in Jerusalem—The City taken by Assault—The Temple Burned.
Into all the details of this most horrible war we will not enter, nor describe how, in Cesarea, [Joppa], Damascus, Jews were slaughtered by thousands and tens of thousands. In 67 a.d., [Vespasian], a distinguished Roman general, marched into Galilee, where he took the city of Gadara, and other strongholds of the land. He was accompanied by his son Titus, who, on his father’s subsequent elevation to the imperial throne of Rome, headed the conquering army.
VESPASIAN.
