Eusebius of Caesarea · a new plain-English translation from the Greek
13| I have set down these calamities, out of countless others, because of our Savior's divine prediction which said, "But woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing in those days." And since this too is added to the Savior's predictions, "There will be great distress upon the land and great wrath on this people," or, as Matthew has it, "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the world's beginning until now, nor ever will," it is good to hear the historian recording the outcome of these very things in some such words as these: "To go through their lawlessness item by item is impossible. To put it in brief, no other city has suffered such things, nor has any generation from the beginning of time been more fruitful in wickedness. They themselves overthrew the city, and they forced the Romans against their will to have their names inscribed on a grim success, and all but dragged the lingering fire onto the temple. Indeed, as they watched it burning from the upper city, they neither grieved nor wept." I have quoted this because of "For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not occurred from the beginning of the world," which, as foretold by the Savior, is attested by the writer to have been fulfilled after [….] forty whole years, in the reign of Vespasian as emperor of the Romans. And the Savior adds to his predictions a fixed time, defining how long Jerusalem will be trampled by the gentiles. He says, then, "Until the [….] of the gentiles are fulfilled," meaning by this the consummation of the world's life.
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