Titus Arch - history intersects.
Titus Arch, Rome Italy. Amazingly fully intact. “And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation." Luke 19:41-44 ESV
The decorations of the arch depict Titus’s triumphal return to Rome after completing the squashing of the Jewish rebellion and destruction of the temple in Jerusalem approximately 70 AD. One of the reliefs on the arch shows the Romans carrying off temple treasures including a large Menorah. It is strange to see this piece of history portrayed by the victors as a triumph after having seen the ancient and lasting effects of it as a tragedy in Israel.
