400 years before Christ

400 years before the feet of Our Saviour touched the earth, this sarcophagus was carved from a single piece of stone and a now forgotten king interred within.

It stands today at a crossway in the Turkish town of Kas, Antiphellos in ancient times, on the Lycian coast.
A little battered but still basically intact.

Who knows but Our Lady may well have looked on it as she journeyed to Ephesus; surely, it must have also known the gaze of St Paul?

What struck me was the fact that so many opponents of the Faith challenge the existence of Christ who had so many testaments to his works and life, yet here is a solid lump of some hard rock that pre dates the Lord by four centuries, yet no one would, very obviously, dispute its provenance.

The fact that the king interred within the sarcophagus has long been forgotten is poignant.
Whereas, the real King of Kings is remembered throughout the world.

And, to really put time in its place, Christ walked the earth less than 750,000 days ago.

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear --

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.