And when you shall see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, then know that its desolation is near.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
He next assigns the cause of what he had just now said, For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. For the miseries that took hold of them were such as, in the words of Josephus, no calamity can henceforth compare to them.