King James Version · Under Rome
Hebrews 10
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For having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very of the things, can never with those which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more of . But in those there is a remembrance again made of every year. For it is not possible that of bulls and of goats should take away . Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, and thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In and for thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book of me,) to do thy will, O . Above when he said, and and and for thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by ; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O . He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are through the of the body of once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and oftentimes the same , which can never take away : But this man, after he had offered one for for ever, sat down on of ; From henceforth expecting till his be made . For by one he hath perfected for ever them that are . Whereof the Ghost also is a to us: for after that he had said before, This is that I will make with them after those days, saith , I will put my laws into their , and in their will I write them; And their and will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more for . Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by of , By a new and living way, which he hath for us, through , that is to say, his ; And having an over the house of ; Let us draw near with a true in full assurance of , having our sprinkled from an evil , and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold the profession of our without wavering; (for he is that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For if we wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more for , But a certain fearful looking for of and , which shall devour the . He that despised ’ law without mercy under two or three : Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of , and hath counted of , wherewith he was , an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto of ? For we know him that hath said, belongeth unto me, I will , saith . And again, shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living . But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye a great fight of afflictions; Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. For ye had of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of , that, after ye have done the will of , ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the shall live by : but if any man draw back, shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that to the saving of the .
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.