“Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, do you think that they were offenders above all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?”

He then takes another example, this time of an ‘accident' that had happened in the vicinity of Jerusalem. Siloam was the reservoir from which Jerusalem's water supply came. The tower may have been a watch tower, or it may have been connected with the aqueduct that Pilate built. Whatever tower it was it had clearly simply collapsed. So here the deaths had been purely connected with what could be called ‘an act of God', that is, something not resulting from men's actions. Was this then any different?

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