Christian Topography: Flat Earth
Cosmas Indiopleustes
Number of quotes: 2
Book ID: 368 Page: 63
Section: 1B,4A
…the scope of his words includes, though but darkly, the Roman empire, which made its appearance {147} contemporaneously with the Lord Christ. "For while Christ was yet {71} in the womb, the Roman empire received its power from God as the servant of the dispensation which Christ introduced, since at that very time the accession was proclaimed of the unending line of the Augusti by whose command a census was made which embraced the whole world. The evangelist certainly indicates that this enrollment {142} was first made in the days of Augustus Caesar, when the Lord Christ was born, and deigned to be enrolled in a country subject to Roman dominion, and to pay tribute thereto.The empire of the Romans thus participates in the dignity of the Kingdom of the Lord Christ, seeing that it transcends, as far as can be in this state of existence, every other power, and will remain unconquered until the final consummation, for he says that it shall not be destroyed for ever.
Quote ID: 8196
Time Periods: 12
Book ID: 368 Page: 63
Section: 1B
…this empire is the servant of the dispensation established by Christ, on which account he, who is the lord of all, preserves it unconquered till the final consummation.
Quote ID: 8197
Time Periods: 1
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