PRODROMOS in Heb. 6:20

Kevin L. Barney klbarney at yahoo.com
Wed May 26 15:13:27 EDT 1999


Hi, Tom

You should probably focus your search on Pompey rather than Titus.

There is an allusion to the story you are thinking of on the following 
url:

http://www.joshuanet.org/israel/history.htm

which says "Pompey brazenly enters Holy of Holies, disappointed to find it 
empty."  Unfortunately, this timeline does not give a source.

A slightly different take is suggested by a footnote to a volume in the 
Ante-Nicene Fathers series that reads:  "n. 84  In 63 b.c., when Pompey's 
curiousity led him to penetrate into the Holy of Holies.  He was much 
impressed, however, by its simplicity, and went away without disturbing its 
treasure, wondering at a religion which had no visible God."

(Unfortunately, the web page (the Wheaton College Church Fathers site) was 
designed poorly, so I couldn't link from the note to the text it belonged 
to.)

Kevin L. Barney
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
klbarney at yahoo.com



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