is still in the city of Rome an imperishable proof — the triumphal arch of Titus, the victorious Roman general, bearing on its sculptured sides the story of the siege and overthrow of Jerusalem — the best preserved of all the arches, as though divine Providence would have it stand as a proof to all ages of God's ultimate victory over His enemies, of the exact fulfilment of a true prophecy, and of the divinity of Jesus Christ.
Our third and last proof of Christ's divinity is contained in the words: "And entering into the Temple He cast out them that sold therein and them that bought." All Judea came annually to Jerusalem to offer sacrifice in the Temple, and as those coming from afar found it more convenient to purchase their offerings in Jerusalem, the dealers, in the heat of competition, had set up their booths in the very porch of the Temple, so that the " house of prayer had become a den of thieves." Now the force of the argument cannot be better presented than in the words of St. Jerome himself. " Some," he says, " affirm that the greatest proof of Our Lord's divinity was the resuscitation of Lazarus; others, the cure of the man born blind; others, the Transfiguration; but to me, of all His miracles none seems more wonderful than this : that one man, a lowly unfortunate, on His way to the gallows, could have so prevailed over the hatred and cupidity of the Scribes and Pharisees as to overthrow their tables and booths, scourge them from the Temple and effect, in a few moments, what all the power of the Roman legions,
