King James Version · Under Rome
James 5
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Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a against you, and shall eat your as it were . Ye have heaped together for the . Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of of sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your , as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the ; and he doth not resist you. Be therefore, brethren, unto the coming of . Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long for it, until he receive the early and . Be ye also ; stablish your : for the coming of draweth nigh. Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. Take, my brethren, , who have spoken in the name of , for an example of suffering affliction, and of . Behold, we count them happy which . Ye have heard of the of , and have seen the end of ; that is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. But above all things, my brethren, not, neither by , neither by the earth, neither by any other : but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. Is any among you afflicted? let him . Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the of ; and let them over him, anointing him with oil in the name of : And the of shall the sick, and shall raise him up; and if he have committed , they shall be forgiven him. your faults one to another, and one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent of a man availeth much. was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he earnestly that it might not : and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he again, and the gave , and the earth brought forth her fruit. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the from the error of his way shall a from , and shall hide a multitude of .
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.