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Secondly, the terrible presages of that destruction are here foretold: There shall be wonders in heaven above, the sun turned into darkness and the moon into blood; and signs too in the earth beneath, blood and fire. Josephus, in his preface to his history of the wars of the Jews, speaks of the signs and prodigies that preceded them, terrible thunders, lightnings, and earthquakes; there was a fiery comet that hung over the city for a year, and a flaming sword was seen pointing down upon it. The fire and vapour of smoke literally came to pass in the burning of their cities, and towns, and synagogues, and temple at last. (Matthew Henry's Commentary, vol. VI, 21)
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