Tag: paul

  • Lectures about God in Athens’ University of Idols

    TO THE UNKNOWN GOD TODAY’S LECTURE At the Areopagus – Visiting Professor of Philosophy & Religion Παῦλος – paulos πολίτης Ταρσεύς Κιλικία Citizen of Tarseus in Cilicia The Hill of Ares or Mars’ Hill, depending on language reference of Greek or Roman for the god of war. The Apostle Paul is about to make an important speech…

    Mars Hill Areopagus Athens Greece where Paul lectured on the unknown God ~A.D. 51
  • The Keeper of the Philippian Prison

    What is your experience as the keeper of something important? Have you ever been the one of importance kept safe in some place? (Were YOU ever the prisoner OR a jailer guard charged as the keeper a prisoner for justice?) Prison and Prisoners IF the only light you ever see seeped filtered though a hole…

    a keeper of the prison in Philippi would have kept Paul and Silas in a dark inner prison cell such as this one in Rome - Mamertine prison
  • A cultural clash at the Agora in Roman Philippi

    a Roman Government of Greek Culture The Roman-built forum in Philippi with its bustling traditional Greek agora resembled the forum in Rome (cover-photo remains of the Roman forum pillars shows some of the grandeur of these most-public areas of the Empires greatest cities. Similar-sized pillars in the foreground of the Philippi Forum and agora (to…

    Philippi is called the second city of Rome in Macedonia, with a Roman Forum along with a bustling Greek agora, a large theatre and many temples.