Life in the Roman World of Nero And St. Paul
Life in the Roman World of Nero And St. Paul
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He wasrequired to suppress all secret societies or political unions. Astrike of the bakers in one city of Asia Minor was promptly put downby the governor as interfering with social order and social needs.
The communities made their own by-laws, they collected the land-tax oftheir own district and handed it over to the financial representativeof the Roman government. This was done by men of their own people, often of a low class, known in the Gospels as the "publicans, " whowere so commonly asso...ciated with sinners. St. Matthew had been one ofthe minor agents for such collection in Galilee. Other taxes--thosewhich were indirect--might be collected by the great tax-farmingcompanies of Roman "knights, " who offered a lump sum for them to thegovernment, and made what they could out of the bargain.
One incidental consequence of this systematic division into communeswas that there spread throughout the empire a strong municipalpatriotism, especially in the Greek world. This was followed byliberal local expenditure on the part of rich provincials inbeautifying their centres with public buildings and works of art, chiefly, no doubt, given for the sake of the local honours with whichthey were repaid, but given nevertheless.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He wasrequired to suppress all secret societies or political unions. Astrike of the bakers in one city of Asia Minor was promptly put downby the governor as interfering with social order and social needs.
The communities made their own by-laws, they collected the land-tax oftheir own district and handed it over to the financial representativeof the Roman government. This was done by men of their own people, often of a low class, known in the Gospels as the "publicans, " whowere so commonly asso...ciated with sinners. St. Matthew had been one ofthe minor agents for such collection in Galilee. Other taxes--thosewhich were indirect--might be collected by the great tax-farmingcompanies of Roman "knights, " who offered a lump sum for them to thegovernment, and made what they could out of the bargain.
One incidental consequence of this systematic division into communeswas that there spread throughout the empire a strong municipalpatriotism, especially in the Greek world. This was followed byliberal local expenditure on the part of rich provincials inbeautifying their centres with public buildings and works of art, chiefly, no doubt, given for the sake of the local honours with whichthey were repaid, but given nevertheless.
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