Sniggerlings: "Vibius Restitutus slept alone."

Sniggerlings:  An Eternal Love?  1934 Years Old and Counting

      For my wife, Sandy(I love you):

      I’m reading Readers’ Digest “Jesus and His Times”. On page 194, it discusses first century graffiti in Roman lands. Yes, there was graffiti in Jesus‘ time. One fellow left this on a wall in Pompeii, a city near Rome that was covered by ash and dust from a volcano out of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. This romantic inscription from that time still exists on the wall of an inn in that historic site: ‘Vibius Restitutus slept alone here and yearned for his Urbana’. Pompeii was preserved for seventeen hundred years until rediscovered in 1748. Maybe love won’t last forever, but in this case it’s nearing the end of its second millennium. I miss you, Sandy. Mm

      p.s., Jesus had been crucified and resurrected fifty years before the volcano covered Pompeii; apostles James(44 B.C.) and Peter and Paul(both 68 A.D.) had had been martyred; and Titus -- the conqueror of Jerusalem, destroyer of Herod’s great temple, and scatterer of the Jewish people -- was Caesar in Rome. Also, the Apostle Paul might have even stayed in the inn mentioned above on his way to Rome to stand trial twenty years before the eruption. Could this volcano have been a warning for Titus in 79 A.D. of who is really in charge? (Zondervan Study Bible, inset timeline).