John Trapp on Matthew 24:21

Verse 21. Tribulation such as was not, &c.] Those very daies [non-Latin text not transcribed] shall be affliction: so Mark hath it, chap. 13. 19. As if the very time were nothing else but affliction it self. He that can read the history of it without tears, hath hardly the heart of a man in him. Besides those many that perished within the wals, Iosephus tels us of a thousand thousand of them slain by the Romans, and 97000 carried captive. Oh see the severity of God, and tremble, Rom. Isidor. 11. 22. Alterius perditio tua sit cautio. Scipio wept when he saw [illegible: 1 word] on fire. And when Saguntum was taken, the Romans were as much affected, as if Hannibal fuisset ad portas, the enemy had been beating upon the walls of the Capitoll.