Quoting%20commentary for Taanit 57:10

ותשיעי סמוך לחשכה הציתו בו את האור והיה דולק והולך כל היום כולו שנאמר (ירמיהו ו, ד) אוי לנו כי פנה היום כי ינטו צללי ערב והיינו דאמר רבי יוחנן אלמלי הייתי באותו הדור לא קבעתיו אלא בעשירי מפני שרובו של היכל בו נשרף ורבנן אתחלתא דפורענותא עדיפא

With reference to this it has been taught: We cannot say that this happened on the seventh, for it has already been stated that it was 'in the tenth'; and we cannot say that this happened on the tenth, for it has already been stated that it was 'on the seventh'. How then are these dates to be reconciled? On the seventh the heathens entered the Temple and ate therein and desecrated it throughout the seventh and eighth [of Ab] and towards dusk of the ninth they set fire to it and it continued to burn the whole of that day, as it is said, Woe unto us for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. VI, 4.');">¹⁶</span>

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