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The Pax Romana
Pax Romana
The term "Pax Romana", which literally means "Roman peace," refers to the time period from 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E. in the Roman Empire.
The Pax Romana began when Octavian became the leader of the Roman Empire. The main importance of his peace was that all of the land surrounding the Mediterranean was not at war because everyone was under Roman Law but also under a Roman tribute and sometimes Roman corruption and abuse.
Romans had been a Republic but had degenerated under the influence of the sloth and avarice of legal charity. The maxims of law had morphed from the original Libera res publica and a Republican Form of government into something quite different. What was the means and method that could be used to alter that nation?
This whole nation could only change by Natural Law through consent and contract.
What price
Bit what of the prohibition on making covenants and leagues?[2]
When asked who ruined Rome, Plutarch's answer was clear and concise:
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)[3] “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch
The Roman Senate of old men, once respected, became the "Conscripti Patri" of a nation and just as the Elder Fathers of the Paterfamilias waived their rights to the Senate and its free bread, so would the Senators waived their responsibilities to to the Patronus of Rome and all his subsequent offices of power.[4]
When the Roman people judged their neighbors rights were not as valuable as their person comfort or gain their own rights were forfeited according to the maxim by what judgement you judge so shall ye be judged.
A Secret lost
"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend; legend became myth."[5]
They had thrown out the throne of Tarquinian kings to form their Republic of individual responsibility which was dependent upon the people's courts, the Great Domestic Union of Husband and Wife, and the social virtues of a noble people, but were drawn back to an imposed peace through men who exercise authority one over the other. The Romans would make a record of that rejection of the liberty of choice by consent to justify their acts of tyranny of man over man, burning incense to their chosen Son of God.
The legal maxim Pacta servanda sunt became the proclamation of justification that strangled their declaration of independence so that what should have been for their welfare became a snare and a trap.
In order to get to that point of power centered in the hands of the Caesars. Julius Caesar built a military empire, amassed an extreme fortune, and political influence while gaining popular support by creating the vision of a dangerous enemy to the north and the conspiring to annihilate their neighbors. Over a million celts were attacked, robbed, or enslaved. The Roman people turned a blind eye to his war crimes and abuse because showered with dainties and benefits through their public temples.
Navigating around the responsibilities that are required in a republic there was a degeneration of the character and values of the masses. These systems of free bread obtained through covetous schemes weakened the people.
The same process through the offer of dainties , benefits, and welfare of rulers who exercise authority has been repeated through out history from Nimrod and his Babylon, to Pharaoh and his bondage in Egypt, to our modern rulers like FDR and LBJ and their promise of New Deals and Great Societies.
If the masses are willing to repent[6] will seek the Kingdom of God and His way of righteousness they may find His Peace.
- ↑ Table as a snare
- Psalms 69:22-23 “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."”
- Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
- Proverbs 23:1 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."
- Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee."
- Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:"
- Deuteronomy 7:16 "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee."
- Judges 2:2 "And ye shall make no league [covenant] with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"
- Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
- Proverbs 6:2 “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Swear not
- Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."
- 1 Timothy 6:9 "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
- "Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" Isaiah 40:21 is about the message of John the Baptist who was "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God" Isaiah 40:3 to avoid the "snare" of the legal charity of the welfare state which which makes the word of God to none effect bringing man back into captivity as human resources.
- ↑ Make no covenant
- Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee..."
- Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: 13 But ye shall destroy(TavTavTzadikVavNun tittōṣūn, תִּתֹּצ֔וּן) their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God: 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;"
- Deuteronomy 7:2 "And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:"
- Deuteronomy 7:16 "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee."
- Deuteronomy 7:24 "And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them."
- Numbers 25:2 "And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods."
- Judges 2:2 "And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"
- 1 Kings 9:22 "But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they [were] men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen." see 1 Samuel 8
- Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
- Obadiah 1:7 "All the men of thy confederacy<01285> have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him."
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 "And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"
- ↑ Alternate translation. "For it has been well said that he first breaks down the power of the people who first feasts and bribes them. But at Rome the mischief seems to have crept in stealthily and gradually, and not to have been noticed at once." Life of Coriolanus, Sec. 14
- ↑ Patronus, Emperator, Apotheos, [[Principas Civitas, Son of God, etc.
- ↑ Galadriel, Lord of the Rings
- ↑ No repentance
- Revelation 9:20 "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:"
- Revelation 16:9 "And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory... 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds."
- Hebrews 12:16-17 "16 Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he (Esau) would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." (Genesis 27:38)
- Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- Matthew 25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
- Matthew 25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
- Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
- Proverbs 1:23 "Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."