King James Version · Under Rome
Hebrews 3
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Wherefore, brethren, partakers of the calling, consider the and of our profession, Christ ; Who was to him that appointed him, as also was in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more than , inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is . And verily was in all his house, as a servant, for a of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold the confidence and the rejoicing of the firm unto the end. Wherefore (as the Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your , as in the provocation, in the day of in : When your fathers me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their ; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my , They shall not enter into .) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil of unbelief, in departing from the living . But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of . For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your , as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of by . But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had , whose carcases fell in ? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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.