God
Family: divine · Role: deity · First appears: Book IV, Chapter 2
In Book IV, Chapter 2, God preserved John so that he would bring about the destruction of Jerusalem, and caused Titus to delay his attack and pitch his camp farther from the city at Cydessa. In Book VI, Chapter 9, Titus said, “We have certainly had God for our assistant in this war”; in Chapter 10, Melchisedek is identified as the first priest of God.
Relationship record
Life events
- God preserved John and caused Titus to delay his attack at Cydessa.(Book IV, Chapter 2 · 📍 Cydessa)
- With: John the son of Levi Titus
- “Now this was the work of God, who therefore preserved this John, that he might bring on the destruction of Jerusalem; as also it was his work that Titus was prevailed with by this pretense for a delay, and that he pitched his camp further off the city at Cydessa.”
Book IV, Chapter 2
- with John the son of Levi (God preserved John for a future purpose.) “Now this was the work of God, who therefore preserved this John, that he might bring on the destruction of Jerusalem;”
- with Titus (interaction) “as also it was his work that Titus was prevailed with by this pretense for a delay, and that he pitched his camp further off the city at Cydessa.”
Book VI, Chapter 9
- with Titus (Titus attributed Roman success in the war to divine assistance.) “We have certainly had God for our assistant in this war”
Book VI, Chapter 10
- with Melchisedek (Melchisedek is described as God's first priest.) “on which account he was [there] the first priest of God”
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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.