Compare the evidences of Divine visitation which befell the persecutors of Jesus Christ with these historic retributions which, in the latter part of the first century of the Bahá’í Era, have hurled to dust the chief adversary of the religion of Bahá’u’lláh.
- Had not the Roman Emperor, in the second half of the first century of the Christian Era, after a distressful siege of Jerusalem,
- laid waste the Holy City,
- destroyed the Temple,
- desecrated and robbed the Holy of Holies of its treasures, and transported them to Rome,
- reared a pagan colony on the mount of Zion,
- massacred the Jews, and
- exiled and dispersed the survivors?
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Unfoldment of World Civilization’)