those days should be shortened Several circumstances concurred to shorten the duration of the siege, such as the scanty supply of provisions, the crowded state of the city, the internal dissensions, and the abandonment of important defences. So strong did the place seem to Titus that he exclaimed, "We have certainly had God on our side in this war; and it was God alone who ejected the Jews from these fortifications." Josephus vi. 9. 1.

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