Fall of Jerusalem

conquest · 70 · Jerusalem

In the fourth year of the revolt Titus took Jerusalem and the Temple burned — the catastrophe Josephus witnessed and counted in the hundreds of thousands. Eusebius records that the Jerusalem church, warned by an oracle, had withdrawn to Pella beyond the Jordan; when it returned, the centre of the Christian world had passed to Antioch, Alexandria and Rome.

Rome's answer to the Judean revolt.

City and Temple destroyed; the mother church, withdrawn to Pella, returns to a Jerusalem that is no longer the church's centre.

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