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The Roman Empire was a world-wide confederation of aristocracies for the perpetuation of human servitude.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
Much of the New Testament is the narrative of the coalescence of the native princes with the Roman invader.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
Paul entered upon the path of intellectual sterility when he substituted a delirious mysticism and orgy, for the social enthusiasms which alone should intoxicate the spirit.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
Native oligarchies, living under Rome's protectorate, were moons depending upon their central sun for light.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
Paul's ... no-work-no-eat doctrine was directed by him only against the poor. All around him were the rich, virginally innocent of toil, and yet who were gorged to the gullet.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
Jerusalem was the home of the country's aristocracy. Like the local aristocracies in all the other countries of the world, these had lined up with the Romans — were federated with the invader.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
This was the Roman Empire's contribution to the world's thought, namely, the solidarity of capital, the oneness of the interests of property irrespective of national boundaries.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
The extension of the Roman "System" to include the Jews, a sturdy mountaineer folk in the hill country of Syria, met there a vehement opposition. And in Galilee, one of the districts of the Jews, the most vehemency of all.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
A measure had been proposed in the Roman Senate to dress slaves in a uniform livery, so as to distinguish them from freemen. It was killed straightway by the argument that this would disclose to the slaves their numerical strength.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
The Church has as an organized body no sympathy for the masses. It is a sort of fashionable club where the rich are entertained and amused, and where most of the ministers are muzzled by their masters and dare not preach the gospel of the Carpenter of Nazareth.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)
To the Carpenter, with his splendid worldliness, the premier qualification for character was self-respect, and the alertness and mastery of environment which go with self-respect. But to Paul the primate virtue is submissiveness—"the powers that be!" He sought to cure the seditiousness of the working class by drawing off their gaze to a crown of righteousness reserved in heaven for them—a gaseous felicity beyond the stars.
The Call of the Carpenter (1914)