The Sabbath dilemma
There is no mistaking the Sabbath of the Jews. At the end of the week, the seventh day, Saturday. Jews rest that day. The word means rest. God rested that day after creating the world over the previous six days. Keep…
Ramble through Antiquity’s end
Other thoughts …
There is no mistaking the Sabbath of the Jews. At the end of the week, the seventh day, Saturday. Jews rest that day. The word means rest. God rested that day after creating the world over the previous six days. Keep…
One spring, a century before, Lucian of Samosata saw …
But I did see in Byblos a great temple of Aphrodite of Byblos, in which they perform ceremonies in honor of Adon …
Adon, Aphrodite’s lover, was killed in their land …
and…
In one year, Constantine took the whole west and then Licinius took all of the east. Lactantius was the first to describe the decisive battles.
Constantine approached a Rome possessed by his rival and in the night God intervened …
Constantine was…
If you’re going to Jerusalem, make sure to see …
further in the city are twin pools, with five porticoes, which are called Bethsaida. There persons who have been sick for many years are cured; the pools contain water which is…
The Paschale Chronicle gives 5833 years from the creation of the world until the 20th anniversary of Constantine
. Until the year 325 to you and me. Jerome’s Chronicle has 5526 years. So we have nearly six thousand years, give or take a…