on this day the Jews were so weary, and under
such consternation, that they refrained from any attacks. But on the
next day they gathered their whole force together, and ran upon those
that guarded the outward court of the temple very boldly, through the
east gate, and this about the second hour of the day. These guards
received that their attack with great bravery, and by covering
themselves with their shields before, as if it were with a wall, they
drew their squadron close together; yet was it evident that they could
not abide there very long, but would be overborne by the multitude of
those that sallied out upon them, and by the heat of their passion.
However, Caesar seeing, from the tower of Antonia, that this squadron
was likely to give way, he sent some chosen horsemen to support them.
Hereupon the Jews found themselves not able to sustain their onset, and
upon the slaughter of those in the forefront, many of the rest were put
to flight. But as the Romans were going off, the Jews turned upon them,
and fought them; and as those Romans came back upon them, they retreated
again, until about the fifth hour of the day they were overborne, and
shut themselves up in the inner [court of the] temple.

5. So Titus retired into the tower of Antonia, and resolved to storm the
temple the next day, early in the morning, with his whole army, and to
encamp round about the holy house. But as for that house, God had, for
certain, long ago doomed it to the fire; and now that fatal day was
come, according to the revolution of ages; it was the tenth day of
the month Lous, [Ab,] upon which it was formerly burnt by the king of
Babylon; although these flames took their rise from the Jews themselves,
and were occasioned by them; for upon Titus's retiring, the seditious
lay still for a little while, and then attacked the Romans again, when
those that guarded the holy house fought with those that quenched the
fire that was burning the inner [court of the] temple; but these Romans
put the Jews to flight, and proceeded as far as the holy house itself.
At which time one of the soldiers, without staying for any orders, and
without any concern or dread upon him at so great an undertaking, and
being hurried on by a certain divine fury, snatched somewhat out of the
materials that were on fire, and being lifted up by another soldier, he
set fire to a golden window, through which there was a passage to the
rooms that were round about the holy house