Note 2 — Chapter XII · FAILURE OF THE LOGIA THEORY

The assertion of Dr. Conybeare (Myth, Magic, and Morals, p. 46), that the destruction of the temple was “an event which any clear-sighted observer of the growing hostility between Jew and Roman must have foreseen,” is characteristic of that writer’s way of interpreting documents. A second reading may perhaps yield him another impression. Forty years of non-fulfilment is a precious proof of the “must.” ↑