It is facinating that as a captive in Christ’s triumph, Paul is able to participate in the vicotry with Christ and become His ambassador (2 Cor 5:20). Paul, who at one time killed Christians, became the man who proclaimed Christ most! God took Paul all over the world, showing people the power Christ has to transform lives. However, instead of this parade leading to Paul’s death, Christ’s prade ends in eternal life for the one who becomes “captive to God.” Along the procession God was using Paul, and wants to use us, to make his victory known. Paul was the prisioner that was taken captive by Christ, because he was a slave to sin (God’s enemy). Thus, Christ, as the victorious general, is awared a triumphal parade. It was God who won the victory over His enemies, through Christ.
Paul uses the familiar imagery of those being led captive in a prade of triumph to express to the Corinthians the power of what Christ had done on their behalf and the role that they take in the process. At the end of the triuphial prade, prisioners would be executed as a public spectical and offering to the “gods.”Ģ Corinthians 2:14 begins with this statment:īut thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession This triumphial prade is what is being depicted in the arch carving. Titus (the general who led the Romans to vicory) paraded the Jewish survivors along with vessels taken from the temple in an official triumph before the people of Rome. You can clearly make out the Menorah (the seven-branched lantern) and table of Showbread that were taken from the temple by the looters.
This arch is located in the Roman Forum in Rome and was carved in 82 A.D. Pictured here is what is known as the “Arch of Titus.” This carved stone contains the image of the plunder taken during the first Jewish Revolt.
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