Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."
Thanks - and how wonderful it is that our founding fathers took this exact thought to heart when writing the American Constitution. Merry Christmas!
"Kingdom of Man?" Not.
I'm a regular reader of the OJ, but this turn of phrase sunk the whole editorial.
I suspect he is trying to say that people were drafted into the gladiatorial games. If so, he's wrong on several counts.
1. I've never run across the term "impressor" in several decades of reading in Roman history.
2. The gladiatorial games were staffed by prisoners of war, convicted criminals, or in some cases volunteered free men. The Romans didn't go around and grab people off the street.
3. The gladiatorial games were not presented in the Circus, which was for chariot races.
ANYONE, that does not believe that Christ’s spirit lives, need only to look at the life of Paul, the Apostle. After the first four Books, Paul’s writings filled the majority of the New Testament.
Paul, born Saul, of Tarsus, persecuted Christians until that fateful day on the road to Damascus (read Acts, Chapter 9). He soon was not only a follower, but a teacher of God’s new way, through Christ.
Paul, was persecuted for the rest of his life, both by some Christians, who thought him a spy, and by his former Jewish brothers, who thought him a traitor.
His heart was God’s, his path was Jesus’. He spread the Word outside of Israel. Through him, the rest of the world has learned of Jesus’ love and God’s grace, given to each of us, if we only accept the Truth.
May God be with all of us this CHRISTmas season. Jesus IS the reason for the Season.
Thanks for the post. “In Hoc Anno Domini” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” are my two musts for Christmas.
This is even more poignant,when you realize, in context, it was written just four years removed from a six year world war fought at a tremendous human and economic cost, which ended the tyranny of three totalitarian regimes, and yet now in the shadow of even a larger menace, Communism, which has claimed the Soviet union and, a few months earlier, all of Mainland China.
In the 58 years since, the world has radically changed, but the age old enemies, those who would rob men of their freedom and dignity, and institute new forms of powerful darkness upon them, still remain.
One of them is Hillary Clinton.