Fire of capture; nets of slavery; city in continual grief

He has shown the burning at the capture that touched the strongest buildings, or the capture of the outstanding citizens in her, being as it were fired in soul and in the outward things by the calamities. It also shows the seizure of those below unto slavery as in a catch of nets—of those who did not use freedom well. For these, not stretching forward unto the things ahead of the things behind, were turning away from glory unto dishonor, from freedom unto slavery, and have become, instead of glorious ones, dimmed and unseen from dishonor and insolence; because of which the city has fallen into continual grief.