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 Jerusalem." Finally,  in  the  fortieth  year  after  Christ, when  three  million  Jews  were  collected  in  Jerusalem for  the  feast  of  the  Passover,  the  Roman  army  suddenly appeared  and  laid  siege  to  the  city.  In  their march  on  Jerusalem  they  had  slain  no  less  than  fourteen hundred  thousand  Jews.  But  the  worst  was  to come,  for  now  began  a  war  compared  to  which  that of  China  and  Japan  was  nothing,  and  the  American Revolution  as  the  killing  of  one  man.  For  the  Jews inside  the  city  were  divided  among  themselves,  and fought  till,  from  very  hunger  and  disease,  they  could fight  no  longer.  On  the  other  hand,  the  deserters and  fugitives  were  all  captured  and  cut  open  by  the enemy,  in  the  hope  their  captors  had  of  securing  the gold  the  poor  wretches  had  attempted  to  save  by swallowing. War and  famine — famine  such  that  the nearest and  dearest  slew  one  another  for  a  meal,  and mothers secretly  cooked  and  ate  their  own  infants. Dead bodies  everywhere,  and  the  living  died  while trying to  bury  the  dead,  until  the  city  became  one vast pestilential  morgue. And at  last,  when  resistance was  no  longer  possible,  the  victorious  Romans rushed in  with  fire  and  sword,  and  burned  and  razed the Temple  to  the  ground,  and  levelled  the  city  walls to the  very  foundation. Josephus estimates  that,  at the  siege  of  Jerusalem  alone,  ninety-seven  thousand were taken  prisoner,  eleven  hundred  thousand  were slain, two  thousand  were  killed  by  their  own  people, and two  thousand  more  died  by  their  own  hand. Such was  the  fulfilment  of  Christ's  prophecy,  and even had  we  no  historic  testimony  of  this  fact,  there