Sentences with phrase «roman citizens»

The novel itself travels widely, taking the reader from Marseilles to the dungeon at Chateau d'If, to the high seas with pirates, and then to Rome — including the catacombs and illegal gangs robbing Roman citizens — plus a short stopover in Turkey, then to Paris, and the French country - side.

Most Roman citizens married, and some clearly enjoyed remarkably happy unions.

They would accumulate debts with other nations to fund their military, then use that same military to conquer that nation and absolve their debts, and then in turn make their people tax paying Roman citizens.

As historian Robert Wilken has pointed out, many Roman citizens would have characterized the early Christian communities as burial societies!

In the rites of the great mother Cybele, legally forbidden to Roman citizens, the initiate castrated himself.

In these posts he sought to bring Goths and Roman citizens together, thereby fusing the two cultures.

But they had overstepped their authority in punishing Roman citizens.

In the first centuries A.D., the common public garb of Roman citizens was the toga, a loose, wraparound outer garment.

During his reign, he began requiring Roman citizens to pay homage to him, not only through taxation, but also through pledging their allegiance with the phrase «Caesar is Lord.»

Roman citizens who did not believe in Jesus, wrote about Him and acknowledged that He did miracles (though they tried to explain them away as «sorcery»).

In the early centuries of the church, the Roman Empire also had it's banners and seals, and Roman Citizens were required by law to swear fealty to Caesar by stating some sort of Pledge of Allegiance to one of his banners or seals.

Italian teenagers knelt prayed next to elderly nuns in full habit; Vatican prelates and Roman citizens surrounded American seminarians and students.

Later, 91 - year - old Cardinal Dean Confalonieri commented: «Even the oldest Roman citizens can not remember an event similar to this.»

In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»

They had assumed that since he was a Roman citizen from Tarsus (a heavily hellinzed area) that he only spoke Greek.

Imagine a Roman citizen going and signing up for the army, getting the brand on his shoulder, and then being told, «Go have fun.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

But the Governor found out that he was a Roman citizen.

When Paul said, «I am a Roman citizen,» (Compare Acts 22:27 - 30, and 24:23.)

The Caesar Gospels usually included promises about how the new Caesar was the «Son of God» who would bring peace to the entire world, and how as a result, every Roman citizen must proclaim Caesar as Lord.

Jesus was not a Roman citizen.

In 1 BC, a Roman citizen wrote to his wife telling her to kill her unborn child if it turned out to be a girl.

Even Paul, in at least one instance, claimed his rights as a Roman citizen against the abuses of officials.

Paul, who was a Roman citizen, asserted his rights when he had been beaten at Philippi (Acts 16:35 - 39), when he was about to be beaten in Jerusalem (22:25 - 29), and when he appealed to Caesar (25:10 - 12; 26:32).

His family belonged to the upper classes of Tarsian society, for Paul was a Roman citizen by birth (Acts 22.27 - ~ -8) as well as a citizen of Tarsus (21.39).

Paul was a Roman citizen.

If this is so, then the role of Tertullian in preserving, through redaction, [22] the dramatic, movingly vivid account of the martyrdom of a recently baptised young woman, the Roman citizen, Perpetua, in the amphitheatre of Carthage in about the year 203, ought to give us clues to the understanding of his attitude towards women as members of the church as opposed to women as martyrs.

the dramatic, movingly vivid account of the martyrdom of a recently baptised young woman, the Roman citizen, Perpetua, in the amphitheatre of Carthage in about the year 203, ought to give us clues to the understanding of his attitude towards women as members of the church as opposed to women as martyrs.

You are right that he did claim his rights as a Roman citizen from time to time.

As a result, Josephus was freed; he moved to Roman and became a Roman citizen, taking the Vespasian family name Flavius.

It was written in 1 BC from a Roman citizen to his wife, who was expecting a child.

(s a Roman citizen, Saul the Jew was likely always Paul the Roman; but Luke, reflecting the Hebrew idea, changes Saul to Paul in his text.)

One had to be either a Roman citizen, as in the case of Paul, or else guilty of a crime against the empire rather than an infraction of a provincial or racial law over which the recognized authorities among the conquered people had the right of judgment.

As a Roman citizen, either because his family had been prominent in the service of the Emperor or because they had paid a large amount of money for the privilege, Saul would have indirectly absorbed the predominant Greek philosophy.

With his options rapidly diminishing, Paul played his trump card and, as a Roman citizen, appealed to Caesar.

However, we are told that when Festus asked him if he was willing to return to Jerusalem for trial, the apostle became alarmed and appealed to Caesar, as was his right as a Roman citizen.

They shook their heads and said that Paul could have been set free and sent on his way to do what he felt compelled to do if he had not made an appeal as a Roman citizen to Caesar.

Not exact matches

Of the citizens of the declining Roman empire, it was said: «Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.»

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

Unlike cities of the modern West, the Greco — Roman city was as much a religious as a political organization, and citizens were expected to participate in thoroughly religious civic festivals, which included sacrifices to the gods and goddesses who served as protectors of the city, whether Athena in Athens, or Artemis in Ephesus.

Josephus; Tacitus (a Roman historian); Pliny the Younger (a Roman politician); Phlegon (a freed slave who wrote histories); Thallus (a first - century historian); Seutonius (a Roman historian); Lucian (a Greek satirist); Celsus (a Roman philosopher); Mara Bar - Serapion (a private citizen who wrote to his son) and the Jewish Talmud.

Our sins are forgiven — Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14 and 2:13, Galatians 1:4 We have peace with God — Romans 5:1 We have the righteousness of Christ imputed to us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 We are a new creature in Christ — 2 Corinthians 5:17 We are baptized into the body of Christ — 1 Corinthians 12:13 We are indwelt with the Holy Spirit — 1 Corinthians 6:19 We are sealed with the Spirit — Ephesians 1:13 We are sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption — Ephesians 4:30 We are preserved in Christ — Jude 1 We will be confirmed to the end by Christ — 1 Corinthians 1:8 We are citizens of the household of God — Ephesians 2:19 We are children of God — Galatians 3:26 We are in the kingdom of God's Son — Colossians 1:13

Actually, the Roman Emperors, in general, did not really believe themselves to be gods, and neither did average citizens.

But regardless, I do know that the Roman Emperors required citizens to swear allegiance to himself and to the Roman Empire in much the same way we do today, and many early Christians refused, instead swearing allegiance to Jesus as Lord.

Being a citizen of Iran he has to follow the laws of the land like we do as stated in romans 13.

Our sins are forgiven — Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14 and 2:13, Galatians 1:4 We have peace with God — Romans 5:1 We are accepted by God — Ephesians 1:6 We have the righteousness of Christ imputed to us — 2 Corinthians 5:21 We are a new creature in Christ — 2 Corinthians 5:17 We are baptized into the body of Christ — 1 Corinthians 12:13 We are indwelt with the Holy Spirit — 1 Corinthians 6:19 We are sealed with the Spirit — Ephesians 1:13 We are sealed with the Spirit unto the day of redemption — Ephesians 4:30 We are preserved in Christ — Jude 1 We will be confirmed to the end by Christ — 1 Corinthians 1:8 We are citizens of the household of God — Ephesians 2:19 We are in the kingdom of God's Son — Colossians 1:13

Mormons I know are well behave citizens than the Roman Christians I have known.

As a Roman client king and faithful citizen of the Empire, Herod would have been required to pledge obeisance to the Roman gods.

When the Church first got started, it was a grassroots movement of working class citizens in an occupied nation in a small corner of the Roman Empire.

Since Ephesus was the capital of Asia, and people from all over that Roman province came there from time to time, the gospel through Paul's preaching was not limited to the citizens of Ephesus but spread throughout the entire region.