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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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<strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Augustus, more than two hundred<br />

thous<strong>and</strong> persons were thus maintained by <strong>the</strong><br />

State, what <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old Roman stock remained was<br />

rapidly decaying, partly from corruption, but<br />

chiefly from <strong>the</strong> increasing cessation <strong>of</strong> marriage,<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> nameless abominations <strong>of</strong> what remained<br />

<strong>of</strong> family-life.<br />

> Instead <strong>of</strong> detailed quotations I Sittengeschichte<br />

Roms, <strong>and</strong> to Z^oHm-would here generally refer to<br />

works on ger^s exhaustive work, Heidenthnin <strong>and</strong><br />

Bomaiih\sUyry,espQ^a^y to JHsdldnder^s<br />

Jadenthum.<br />

<strong>The</strong> state <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> provinces was in every respect<br />

more favonraUe. OHAP But it was <strong>the</strong> settled<br />

policy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Empire, which only too surely ^<br />

succeeded, to destroy all separate nationalities, or<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r to absorb ' <strong>and</strong> to Grecianise all. <strong>The</strong> only<br />

real resistance came from <strong>the</strong> Jews. <strong>The</strong>ir tenacity<br />

was religious, <strong>and</strong>, even in its extreme <strong>of</strong><br />

intolerant exolusiveness, served a most important<br />

Providential purpose. And so Borne became to all

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