Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan mocking Christians and their willingness to die for Christ only seventy years after Jesus’ death and resurrection. And Suetonius referred to Jesus in his work, “Twelve Ceasars” – all within the first century. According to the chronology of ...
During his appointment as governor of the province of Bithynia, Pliny the younger sent frequently letters to the emperor Trajan, asking him about various matters, even small ones, and the Emperor replied to all these, encouraging this personal communication through writing.The vastness of the ...
notnecessarily the selfsame day of the week, unless it was the Sabbath, which possiblyPliny prefers not to mention to avoid placing Christians in a worse light by associatingthem with Jews would have encouraged the emperor to take harsher measures, the very thing Pliny's letter wished to ...
in their opinion, to imbue their scholars with a firm belief in the indestructability of the human soul, which, according to their belief, merely passes at death from one tenement to another; for by such doctrine alone, they say, which robs death of all its terrors, can the highest for...
Letter of Paul to the Romans, sixth book of the New Testament and the longest and doctrinally most significant of Saint Paul the Apostle’s writings. It was probably composed at Corinth in about 57 and was addressed to the Christian church at Rome, whose
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Originally a Moorish prince, his military ability won him the favor of Trajan, who even designated him as his successor. During the emperor's Parthian campaign the numerous Jewish inhabitants of Babylonia revolted, and were relentlessly suppressed by Quietus, who was rewarded by being appointed go...
“Pontifex Maximus” literally means “the greatest bridge builder” and was the title conferred on the high priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient pagan Rome. The College was ancient Rome’s most sacred priesthood of advisors to the Roman Emperor-god. ...
Some argue that the Roman Christians were practicing civil disobedience when they refused to sacrifice to the emperor as they were commanded. Civil disobedience is not refusing to obey a command that would cause us to sin. Christians are free to disobey the government, and indeed must disobey th...