King James Version · Under Rome
Revelation 10
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And I saw another mighty come down from , clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of : And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. And which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to , And sware by him that liveth , who created , and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh , when he shall begin to sound, of should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants . And the voice which I heard from spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto , and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of ’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said unto me, Thou must again before many peoples, and nations, and , and kings.
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.