History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

sink."[8]
Eusebius also relates its fulfillment:--
"The whole body, however, of the church at
Jerusalem, having been commanded by a divine
revelation, given to men of approved piety there
before the war, removed from the city, and dwelt at
a certain town beyond the Jordan, called Pella.
Here, those that believed in Christ, having removed
from Jerusalem, as if holy men had entirely
abandoned the royal city itself, and the whole land
of Judea; the divine justice for their crimes against
Christ and his apostles, finally overtook them,
totally destroying the whole generation of these
evil-doers from the earth."[9]
3. So imminent was the danger when this sign
should be seen that not a moment was to be lost.
He that was upon the housetop could not even
come down to take a single article form his house.
The man that was in the field was forbidden to
return to the house for his clothes. Not a moment
was to be lost; they must flee as they were, and flee
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