c. AD 77

J. BJ 6.233

The Wars of the Jews 6.233

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

6.233

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

233Upon the Jews’ seeing this fire all about them, their spirits sunk together with their bodies, and they were under such astonishment, that not one of them made any haste, either to defend himself or to quench the fire, but they stood as mute spectators of it only.