Many Romans of the imperial period followed Virgil, Ovid, and Horace in hoping for a political leader who would solve Rome's problems. At the same time, many other Romans were looking to an entirely different hope. The Gospel of Luke is particularly good at describing that hope. Please read through a chapter or two of Luke's gospel, and pick out a verse that might have had particular appeal to those living under the rule of Imperial Rome.Many different Bible translations are available at the Blue Letter Bible site.
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Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways [shall be] made smooth;
Luk 3:6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
These two lines seem to be something that teh Roman people might get excited about. Basically in 3:5 you can see that Luke is saying that everything will be filled and anything rough will become smooth and easy to work on, but the line in 3:6 I think would really get people to have hope because it tells them that everyone will see the salvation of God, which to a lot of people would be worth hoping for since in God there is the hope of life after death.
Eric Bengs
Luke 3:14 which reads and the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse [any] falsely; and be content with your wages. Also Luke 3:19 which reads But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done.
I think that these two lines would please Romans on both sides of the argument of wether Christianity was the way of the future. The first line would I believe have pleased Christians becuase it shows how Christ is benevolent and that everyone even soldiers should be happy with what they have. The second line I believe would have pleased Romans still following the old gods. The line shows that there were still some Romans who didn't agree with Christianity such as the case when Herrod imprisons John.
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