Neque aliquanto segnius minas effectibus prosequuntur: siquidem, ut breviter dicam, accensus manibus paganorum ignis, iustas de sceleribus populi Dei ultiones expetiit, non illius impar qui quondam a Chaldaeis succensus Hierosolymorum moenia immo aedificia cuncta consumpsit.
And they were in no manner more backward in carrying out their threats in deed than in making them: insomuch as, to be short, the fire once kindled in the hands of the pagans took Gods just revenge of the wickedness of the people, not much unlike unto that fire which sometime kindled of the Chaldees, consumed the walls, nay rather all the buildings of Jerusalem.
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