The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans : with notes, comments, maps, and illustrations .. . KOME. (View from Citadel. Coliseum in distance. pagan communities, at least to churches in pagan communities, it will be sufficient for ourpresent purpose to look simply at the moral condition of the pagan world. It is not difficultto form a tolerably clear conception of its moral character, both because Paul in the firstchapter of his Epistle to the Romans has given a graphic and terrible description of Romansociety, and because contemporaneous pagan literature abundantly confirms and illustrate
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans : with notes, comments, maps, and illustrations .. . KOME. (View from Citadel. Coliseum in distance. pagan communities, at least to churches in pagan communities, it will be sufficient for ourpresent purpose to look simply at the moral condition of the pagan world. It is not difficultto form a tolerably clear conception of its moral character, both because Paul in the firstchapter of his Epistle to the Romans has given a graphic and terrible description of Romansociety, and because contemporaneous pagan literature abundantly confirms and illustrateshis terrible indictment. Space does not allow, nor does my purpose require, any elaboratepicture. Roman society in the first century of the Christian era has been often described, THE PAGAN WORLD. 43 and to these ilescriptions the reader is referred whose curiosity prompts and whose timepermits a further study. Even then he will not, can not know the worst. For the worstaspects (jf the best society of Pagan Rome under Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nerocan not be described, can scarcely be
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