the Master: 'What manner of stones and what buildings are here.' The view from that

site must have rendered belief in the Master's prediction even more difficult and more

sad. A few years more, and it was all literally fulfilled! It may be, as Jewish tradition has

it, that ever since the Babylonish captivity the 'Ark of the Covenant' lies buried and

concealed underneath the wood-court at the north-eastern angle of the Court of the

Women. And it may be that some at least of the spoils which Titus carried with him from

Jerusalem--the seven-branched candlestick, the table of shewbread, the priests'

trumpets, and the identical golden mitre which Aaron had worn on his forehead--are

hidden somewhere in the vaults beneath the site of the Temple, after having

successively gone to Rome, to Carthage, to Byzantium, to Ravenna, and thence to

Jerusalem. But of 'those great buildings' that once stood there, there is 'not left one

stone upon another' that has not been 'thrown down.'