But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord, in agreement with her wicked deeds; and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it, the city itself, with all its suburbs, being considered a forest of dwellings. Thus the specific items in the destruction of Jerusalem were ever and again brought to the attention of the apostate Jews, just as the individual incidents of the Last Judgment are set forth at length and with careful attention to details in the New Testament.

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