Footnotes
- 1 JOSEPHUS, translated by William Whiston, Kregel
Publications, 1981, Wars of the Jews, books VI & VIII.
- 2 HISTORY OF ISRAEL, Vol. II, Oesterley, W.O.E.
- 3 Ibid., pp. 444-447. (Sets the stage for siege of Jerusalem.)
- 4 JOSEPHUS, Ibid., Wars of the Jews, book II, Ch. xix.
- 5 MATTHEW HENRY'S COMMENTARY, Henry, Matthew, Vol. V.,
edited by Dr. Leslie F. Church, Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, 1961, on
Matthew 24, p. 1328, Ch. VI, Sec. 2, ". . .for when Christians in
Jerusalem and Judea saw the ruin coming on, they all retired to a town
called Pella, on the other side Jordan, where they were safe, so that
of the thousands that perished in the destruction of Jerusalem, there
was not so much as one Christian.
- 6. Miller, Donald G., THE LAYMAN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY,
Vol. 18, Richmond, VA., John Knox Press, c C.D. Deans 1959, Gospel Of
Luke, pp. 147-148. "When Jerusalem was attacked in A. D. 66-70, the
Christians followed this counsel of their Lord, leaving Jerusalem for
Pella, east of the Jordan."
Tasker, R.V.G., M.A.D.D., THE TYNDALE NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARIES.,
1st ed., c The Tyndale Press, Oct. 1961. The Gospel of St. Mark, p.
199. Regarding the prophecies of Jesus: "Nevertheless some of them were
precise enough to assure the survival of the Jerusalem church, in that
it took warning and fled to Pella in Transjordan before the Roman ring
of steel had tightened around the doomed city in A.D. 70."
THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY, Vol. X, New York, Cambridge
at the University Press, 1952, p. 860. Footnote: "The Christian
community took no part in these struggles. It must have left early, and
have withdrawn to the Greek city of Pella in Peraea, where it remained
undisturbed the whole war."
- 7. Noth, Martin, HISTORY OF ISRAEL, Harper &
Brothers, N. Y. p. 440."The Zealots therefore sent for help to Idumea."
- 8. Williamson, G.A., THE WORLD OF JOSEPHUS, Canada,
Little, Brown & Co., LTD., 1964, pp. 224-225.
- 9. CLARKE'S COMMENTARY, Clarke, Adam, Abingdon,
Nashville, TN, Vol. V, p/ 230, Historical references to that period
associated with Luke 19:41-44.
- 10. Ibid, Vol. V. p. 226, 'Maimonides, a Jewish rabbin, in
Tract. Taanith, c. 4, says, "That the very foundations of the Temple
were digged up, according to the Roman custom." His words are these:
"On that ninth day of the month Ab, fatal for vengeance, the wicked
Turnus Rufus, of the children of Edom, ploughed up the temple, and the
places round about it, that the saying might be fulfilled, Zion shall
be ploughed as a field." This Turnus, or rather Terentius Rufus, was
left general of the army by Titus with commission, as the Jews
supposed, to destroy the city and the temple, as Josephus observes.'
- 11 Kathleen M. Kenyon, JERUSALEM, 1967, Thames and
Hudson Ltd.
- 12 Cambridge, Ibid., p. 862. "The daily sacrifices in the
Temple had at last to be suspended and the agony of famine began. In
August, on the day that corresponds to the 9th Ab in the Jewish
calendar, the Roman troops succeeded in firing the gate of the Temple
and broke into it.
Williamson, Ibid., p. 217-231. Agony of Jerusalem.
- 13 THE ESSENTIAL EUSEBIUS, Luibheid, Colm, New York,
Mentor-Omega Books, 1966, p. 97, III, 5:1-7.
- 14 Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Ibid., The Gospel of Mark, Ch.
13, p. 192. 'That "the abomination of desolation" here alluded to was
intended to point to the Roman ensigns, as the symbol of an idolatrous,
and so unclean Pagan power, may be gathered by comparing what Luke says
in the corresponding verse (21:20) and commentators are agreed on it.
Tasker, Ibid., p. 202, on Mark 13:14 and Luke 21:20, "The Roman eagles,
standards of the legions, were held by the Zealots to be just such an
abomination (being images, and as such forbidden in the commandments),
and A.D. 70 was to show what desolation the Roman eagles could work."
- 15 Clarke, Ibid., P. 231. All Clarke quotes used by
permission.
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