What Does Burroughs Mean Here?

[Marrow Man]

In the SDG version of Jeremiah Burrough's Gospel Worship, the author makes the following statement on p. 23 (the context is that often God's judgments are suitable to men's sins):

God many times proportions judgment to sinners that His righteousness might the more appear. Those very creatures in which we sin many times God makes, or others of the same kind, to be the executioners of His wrath. So it was with the Jews. They sold Christ for 30 pieces of sliver, and 30 of them were sold for a penny afterwards.. (emphasis added)

I may just be being dense, but I don't get the last reference. Someone please explain it to me!

 

[NaphtaliPress]

Is he referring to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70? Were Jews enslaved then?

 

[NaphtaliPress]

See here for the beginnings of an answer.

 

[Marrow Man]

s he referring to the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70? Were Jews enslaved then?

I was thinking maybe that or Masada, but I don't know.

 

[Don Kistler]

I think what Chris Coldwell offered is the most likely explanation. I checked the original edition of "Gospel Worship" and there is no mistake in the text. That is what it says.

 

[Marrow Man]

See here for the beginnings of an answer.

That certainly looks like the answer, but I wonder what footnote 147 cites...

 

[Marrow Man]

I think what Chris Coldwell offered is the most likely explanation. I checked the original edition of "Gospel Worship" and there is no mistake in the text. That is what it says.

Thanks, Dr. Kistler. I didn't doubt it was accurate; I just didn't get the reference.

 

[Prufrock]

Mr. Phillips, the reference is to a line in Pseudo Hegesippus' adaptation of Josephus' Jewish Wars; I don't *think* it's in Josephus' own work. I'll check back here within a few days to see if pointing you down that road was enough to help you find the precise reference. (The work apparently used to be attributed to Ambrose: I don't know if it still was in Burroughs' day or not. Not that it matters.)

 

[Marrow Man]

Mr. Phillips, the reference is to a line Pseudo Hegesippus' adaptation of Josephus' Jewish Wars; I don't *think* it's in Josephus' own work. I'll check back here within a few days to see if pointing you down that road was enough to help you find the precise reference. (The work apparently used to be attributed to Ambrose: I don't know if it still was in Burroughs' day or not. Not that it matters.)

Extremely helpful, Paul. No need to chase down the source. I think I've satisfied my curiosity and have been enlightened in the process. It is an historical reference of which I was unfamiliar, prior to this.