Luke 19:44

shall lay thee even with the ground Titus, if we may trust Josephus, accomplished this prophecy wholly against his will, being driven to the utter subversion and destruction of the city, by the desperate obstinacy of the Jews. Sulpicius Severus (Hist.ii.), who is supposed to be here incorporating a fragment of Tacitus, says, "alii et Titus ipseevertendum templum in primis censebant quo plenius Judaeo- rum et Christianorumreligio tolleretur." Josephus says that it was so frightfully desolated by the siege, that any Jew coming suddenly upon it would have asked what place it was (Jos. B. J.vi. 1, §1). It was again laid waste in the rebellion under Barcochba.

and thy children within thee The siege began at the Passover, and hence it is said that nearly 3,000,000 Jews,were crowded into the city.

shall not leave in thee one stone upon another The subsequent attempt of the Jews to rebuild the Temple was frustrated by the outburst of subterranean fires. See Gibbon, ch. xxiii. 11. 309 (ed. Milman). Comp. Micah 3:12.

of thy visitation See Isaiah 29:2-4; Hosea 10:14-15. For the word -visitation" see 1 Peter 2:12; Sir 18:20. The -visitation" which they had neglected was one of mercy, Luke 1:68.