King James Version · Under Rome
Revelation 19
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And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in , saying, Alleluia; , and , and , and , unto our : For true and are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up . And the four and twenty and the four fell down and that sat on , saying, ; Alleluia. And a voice came out of , saying, our , all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give to him: for the marriage of is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the of . And he saith unto me, Write, are they which are called unto the of . And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of . And I fell at his feet to him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the of : : for the of is of . And I saw opened, and behold ; and he that sat upon him was called and True, and in he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a , and on his head were many ; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in : and his name is called The Word of . And the armies which were in followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his goeth a sharp , that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and of Almighty . And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND OF LORDS. And I saw standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of , Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great ; That ye may eat of kings, and of captains, and of , and of horses, and of them that sit on them, and of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw , and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And was taken, and with him the false that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of , and them that his . These both were cast alive into a lake of burning with brimstone. And were slain with of him that sat upon the horse, which proceeded out of his : and all the fowls were filled with their .
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.