6. That the Jews should lose
Jerusalem, and should leave the land which they had received.
In Isaiah: “Your country is desolate,
your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers shall
devour it in your sight; and the daughter of Zion shall be left
deserted, and overthrown by foreign peoples, as a cottage in a
vineyard, and as a keeper’s lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a
city which is besieged. And unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left
us a seed, we should have been as Sodoma, and we should have been like
unto Gomorrah.”
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Also in the Gospel the Lord
says: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and
stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered
thy children as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and thou
wouldst not! Behold, your house shall be left unto you
desolate.”
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Isa. i. 7–9
.
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Matt. xxiii. 37,
38
.