King James Version · Under Rome
2 Corinthians 6
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We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the of in . (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of .) Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of , in much , in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by , by kindness, by the Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the of , by the armour of on and on the left, By and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as , yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. O ye Corinthians, our is open unto you, our is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. Be ye not together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath with unrighteousness? and what communion hath with ? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath of with idols? for ye are of the living ; as hath said, I will in them, and walk in them; and I will be their , and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith , and touch not the thing; and I will receive you, And will be a unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith Almighty.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Under Rome, 63 BC to AD 100 ›
Judea as a client kingdom and then a province. Roads, garrisons, taxes, crucifixion, and a common Greek language that let a message travel the empire faster than any before it.
- Rome
- The republic tears itself apart in civil war and comes out as an empire under Augustus. What follows is two centuries of relative peace across the whole Mediterranean, enforced by legions and paid for by taxes, with safe roads and safe sea lanes. Every one of Paul's journeys depends on that.
- Judea
- Governed first through Herod the Great, a client king of enormous ability and enormous brutality who rebuilds the temple into one of the wonders of the ancient world, then directly by Roman prefects. Crucifixion is the standard penalty for sedition and is used often and publicly.
- The wider world
- Greek is spoken from Spain to Syria, which means a letter written in Corinth can be read in Rome without translation. Jewish communities already exist in most major cities, which is where the first Christian preaching lands. Mystery religions, imperial cult, and philosophy all compete in the same marketplace.
- Further afield
- The Han dynasty rules China and trades silk westward along routes that touch the Roman world at second hand. In Britain the Roman conquest begins within a decade of the crucifixion.