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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
Jerusalem fell in A. D. 70. As an honor to

himself, the Roman commander had

determined to save the temple; but the Lord

had said that there should not remain one

stone upon another which should not be

thrown down. A Roman soldier seized a brand

of fire, and, climbing upon the shoulders of his

comrades, thrust it into one of the windows of

the beautiful structure. It was soon in the arms

of the devouring element. The frantic efforts

of the Jews to extinguish the flames were

seconded by Titus himself, but all in vain.

Seeing that the temple must perish, Titus

rushed in, and bore away the golden

candlestick, the table of show-bread, and the

volume of the law, wrapped in golden tissue.

The candlestick was afterward deposited in

Vespasian’s Temple to Peace, and copied on