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 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,