Destruction of Jerusalem

and he shall destroy the city and the holy place with a leader who is coming, and they shall be cut down as in a deluge, even to the end of the war, which shall be cut down even to destruction.

For circumcision was to be given, but as a sign by which Israel would be recognizable in the last time, when, according to its merits, it would be forbidden to enter the holy city, by the words of the prophets saying:

And since they had committed these things, and had not understood that Christ was to be found in the time of their visitation, their land was made deserted, and their cities burned with fire;

To take an historic instance of world-wide celebrity, it is certain that the destruction of Jerusalem must have done at least as much as Pauline or other teaching towards winning over to Christianity Jews or Jewish proselytes.

And from the time he suffered to the destruction of Jerusalem there are forty-two years, three months;

And these too must be rendered to the chronography — the days, I mean, at which Daniel hints, from the desolation of Jerusalem .

And again, from the seventy-year captivity and the restoration of the people to the land of their fathers, to the captivity under Vespasian, are reckoned together four hundred and ten years;

Asked by His disciples when those things would come to pass which He had meanwhile burst forth concerning the temple's downfall, He sets in order, first, the times of the Jews up to the destruction of Jerusalem, then, of the common things, up to the conclusion of the age.