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[ That these calamities of the Jews, who were our Savior's murderers, were to be the greatest that had ever been since the beginning of the world, our Savior had directly foretold, Matthew 24:21; Mark 13:19; Luke 21:23, 24; and that they proved to be such accordingly, Josephus is here a most authentic witness.]

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[ Titus.]

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[ These seven, or rather five, degrees of purity, or purification, are enumerated hereafter, B. V. ch. 5. sect. 6. The Rabbins make ten degrees of them, as Reland there informs us.]


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BOOK I.

Containing The Interval Of One Hundred And Sixty-Seven
Years.
From The Taking Of Jerusalem By Antiochus Epiphanes,
To The Death Of Herod The Great.