c. AD 77

J. BJ 6.165

The Wars of the Jews 6.165

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

6.165

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

165for they set the northwest cloister, which was joined to the tower of Antonia, on fire, and after that brake off about twenty cubits of that cloister, and thereby made a beginning in burning the sanctuary;