The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . lived had crowded in four-teen years of life so black a catalogue of iniquities. Till the days of Nero, theChristians had never been brought into collision with the Imperial Governmentof Rome; and, up to the tenth year of Neros reign, the followers of Christ hadmany reasons to be grateful to the impartiality of the Roman law. Pauls in-junction to the Roman Christians was to besubject to the higher powers ( 1-7). War commenced bet ween the Jews and Romans, A. D. 64, and a perse-cution of the Christians began, durin
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . lived had crowded in four-teen years of life so black a catalogue of iniquities. Till the days of Nero, theChristians had never been brought into collision with the Imperial Governmentof Rome; and, up to the tenth year of Neros reign, the followers of Christ hadmany reasons to be grateful to the impartiality of the Roman law. Pauls in-junction to the Roman Christians was to besubject to the higher powers ( 1-7). War commenced bet ween the Jews and Romans, A. D. 64, and a perse-cution of the Christians began, during which St. Paul suffered death (A. D. 6G) atRome. In the Acts, Nero is often styled Ceesar and Augustus. In A. D. 64, Romewas nearly destroyed by a great conflagration, which Nero was suspected of havingkindled. To remove this suspicion, he charged the crime upon the Christians,many of whom were in consequence remorsely tortured and put to death. On hearing that the legions in Gaul had proclaimed Galba Emperor (see illus-tration facing 483), Nero committed Drusus, the Elder. JOSHUA- -LESSONS. 479 removal from Palestine, moreover, seems to have been essential for thepreservation of the Israelites frcm the contaminating influence ofidolatry, and they had the alternative of flight. In fact, many sailedto the distant shores of the Mediterranean, and there founded flourish-ing colonies, thus preserving, to comparatively modern times, recordsof the God who fought against them. Some may object that the war in which they were exterminated wascruel, and that they might have been removed by famine or to the first objection it is a sufficient reply that, the cruelties thuspractised were common to the age, and that in exterminating a veryguilty people, God did not direct milder usages than those which gene-rally prevailed (Josh. viii.). The second objection is answered by thefact that no plan could have made clearer or more impressive thepower and righteousness of
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