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To: Berry Picker who wrote (35991)	12/8/2003 11:04:55 PM
From: alan w	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Hi Brian. What about the 200 million man army? I've often thought about that number being specifically called out. Any thoughts? alan

To: Berry Picker who wrote (35991)	12/8/2003 11:07:12 PM
From: Jamey	Respond to of 39621

The Fall of Jerusalem- "Josephus reckons the number of captives taken during the war at 97,000, and the number of those who perished during the siege at 1,100,000. The numbers who perished in the whole war are reckoned at the awful total of 1,337,490, and the number of prisoners at 101,700 ; but even these estimates do not include all the items of many skirmishes and battles, nor do they take into account the multitude who, throughout the whole country, perished of misery, famine, and disease. It may well be said that the nation seemed to have given itself "a rendezvous of extermination." Two thousand putrefying bodies were found even in the subterranean vaults of the city. During the siege all the trees of the environs had been cut down, and hence the whole appearance of the place, with its charred and bloodstained ruins, was so completely altered, that one who was suddenly brought to it would not (we are told) have recognized where he was. And yet the site had been so apparently impregnable, with its massive and unequalled fortifications, that Titus freely declared that he saw in his victory the hand of God. preteristarchive.com Read Josephus History of the Church for more information about the 3 1/2 years just prior to the Fall of Jerusalem. James