You’d accuse a pious Christian of telling whoppers?
Said the chronicler:
“Piles of heads, hands, and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one’s way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the Temple of Solomon, a place where religious services are ordinarily chanted. What happened there? If I tell the truth, it will exceed your powers of belief.
“So let it suffice to say this much, at least, that in the Temple and porch of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins.”
“Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgment of God that this place should be filled with the blood of the unbelievers, since it had suffered so long from their blasphemies. The city was filled with corpses and blood.”
The “Temple” and “Porch of Solomon” refer to the Dome of the Rock shrine, a much more limited space with tunnels underneath. The Temple Mount is actually a platform rather than a rocky crag.
“You’d accuse a pious Christian of telling whoppers?”
I didn’t pronounce a judgement, I just said it sounded fishy to me. Could be I misunderstood, or was operating under a bad assumption, or even that the account was embellished by someone else. Besides which, I have no idea if he was a “pious Christian” or not, since I can’t judge his heart, and didn’t even know him.
“The “Temple” and “Porch of Solomon” refer to the Dome of the Rock shrine, a much more limited space with tunnels underneath. The Temple Mount is actually a platform rather than a rocky crag.”
That makes a lot more sense. I was thinking by “Temple of Solomon” he was referring to the summit of the Temple Mount, as I think one poster implied. If the account is referring to an enclosed building, or some limited space on the summit, that sounds a lot more plausible.