[Hebrews 11:6]

Am I correct that the reason the Romans tore apart the stones of the Temple, as Jesus predicted would happen, was in order to retrieve the gold which had melted and run down between the stones when they burnt it?

[Charles Henrickson]

Am I correct that the reason the Romans tore apart the stones of the Temple, as Jesus predicted would happen, was in order to retrieve the gold which had melted and run down between the stones when they burnt it?

In Book VII of The Wars of the Jews, the first-century historian Flavius Josephus records that in the months after the destruction of Jerusalem (in A.D. 70), the Romans (and also some other scavengers) dug up the foundation of the city looking for plunder, which included gold. I could not find any place where he gets as precise as to describe that it was the gold that had melted and run down between the stones.