trump
republicans "Make America Great Again"!
I
was wrong!
OOP’s
trump
republicans do not want to go back to the 1920’s and 30’s!
They
want to revert back to the times before the Apostles teaching in
To
AD 60–61!
The Roman
Empire: in the First Century. The Roman Empire. Life In Roman Times. Family
Life | PBS
Ancient
Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the
power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or
die.
Families
were dominated by men.
At
the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, called the
"paterfamilias," or "father of the family."
He
looked after the family's business affairs and property and could perform
religious rites on their behalf.
Absolute
power
The
paterfamilias had absolute rule over his household and children. If they
angered him, he had the legal right to disown his children, sell them into
slavery or even kill them.
Only
the paterfamilias could own property: whatever their age, until their father
died, his sons only received
an allowance, or peliculum, to manage their own households.
https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/family.html
In
the pagan world of Paul’s day, and even in many Jewish households, most fathers
ruled their families with rigid and domineering authority. The desires and
welfare of wives and children were seldom considered. By Roman law, a father
had virtual life and death power not only over his slaves but over his entire
household. He could cast any of them out of the house, sell them as slaves, or
even kill them, and be accountable to no one.
Capitol
insurrection on Wednesday
Paul
wrote the letter to the Ephesians sometime in AD 60–61, around the same time he
wrote Colossians and Philemon, as he sent all three letters by the hand of
Tychicus, accompanied by Onesimus (Ephesians 6:21;Colossians 4:7–9; Philemon
1:10–12). It was during this time that Paul sat in Rome undergoing
his first Roman imprisonment (Ephesians 3:1; 4:1), making Ephesians one of the
four epistles commonly known as the Prison Epistles. The others are
Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon.
