When Pompey, using or abusing the right of conquest, entered into the Holy of Holies, it was observed with amazement,
"Nulla intus Deum effigie, vacuam sedem et inania
arcana." —Tacitus, The Histories, v. 9.
It was a popular saying, with regard to the Jews,
Nil praeter nubes et coeli numen
adorant.