Virgil was likely the greatest Roman poet. That's what they thought in his day and most scholars today concur. His poem, the Aeneid, told of Rome’s legendary founder. With great skill and with a kind of music in his diction, Virgil advanced the thesis that it was Rome's mission to civilize the world; the gods would help make this possible.

Christians believe that task was given to God's People Israel, and to their Messiah whom Christian believe was Jesus of Nazareth. We get to join in, by faith and obedience, and thereby may get in on the blessing.

Through Him, for Him and by Him, the enslaved world was redeemed and an estranged world is being reconciled - not by the gods or to the gods which were no gods at all, but to God, the true One of Israel. Christians believe that not Caesar but Jesus was and is: Lord of all.

But Virgil was correct when he wrote of a still broken world:

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tanguni.

These are the tears of things, and the stuff of our mortality cuts us to the heart