Bible Dictionary: Roman Empire: The Rights of Citizens

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Acts 16:37
But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privately? no truly; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
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Acts 22:25-29
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to whip a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
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Letter cxxxviii. (AD 412. )
... be contrary to the duties and rights of citizens ... so many nations, because its citizens
preferred to ... many calamities have befallen the Roman Empire through some ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter cxxxviii a d 412.htm

To what Profit the Romans Carried on Wars, and How Much they ...
... afterwards was done most humanely and most acceptably, namely, the admission of
all to the rights of Roman citizens who belonged to the Roman empire, and if ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 17 to what profit the.htm

Christianity and Slavery.
... title, no register;" they had no rights of matrimony ... A proverb prevailed in the Roman
empire: "As many ... slaves, 10,000 foreigners, and only 21,000 free citizens. ...
/.../section 48 christianity and slavery.htm

The Syrian Enrollment in 8 Bc
... province, was a curtailment of his rights, which he ... tax (which was not a general
Roman institution): conscription ... common to all parts of the empire: hence the ...
/.../ramsay/was christ born in bethlehem/chapter 8 the syrian enrollment.htm

Jews.
... Italy, and other parts of the Roman empire; the eastern ... Mahometan caliphs, a number
of the Roman pontiffs, and ... the Jews are admitted to equal rights with all ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/jews.htm

The Fifth Book
... they had lost the rights of Roman, citizens, forfeited also ... their holdings and forfeit
the very rights of liberty ... Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire, I, 213 ...
//christianbookshelf.org/salvian/on the government of god/the fifth book.htm

Rome Protects Paul
... to claim the sacred name of Roman falsely would ... then?' A shameful trade in selling
citizens' rights was carried ... the degraded days of the Empire by underlings ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/rome protects paul.htm

'The Chief Corner-Stone'
... The Roman Empire had in Paul's time gathered into ... citizenship is in heaven.' The
Roman Eagle swept ... strangers and foreigners, lacking the rights of citizenship ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/the chief corner-stone.htm

The Seven Trumpets.
... dissented from the Catholic doctrines, in the African part of the Roman empire. ... in
the cities and country, were deprived of the rights of citizens, and of ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the seven trumpets.htm

Other Self-Asserting Augustae --Verina, Ariadne, Sophia, Martina ...
... Leo left the Empire to his son Constantine VI., a lad of ... Irene as sole regent and
guardian of the Roman world ... of his own age who urged him to assert his rights. ...
/.../women of early christianity/xii other self-asserting augustaeverina ariadne.htm

Subtopics

Irony: The Roman Soldiers to Jesus

Roman

Roman Army

Roman Empire

Roman Empire: Citizenship In by Birth

Roman Empire: Citizenship In by Purchase

Roman Empire: Ruled by Augustus Caesar

Roman Empire: Ruled by Claudius Caesar

Roman Empire: Ruled by Nero

Roman Empire: Ruled by Tiberius Caesar

Roman Empire: The Right of Appeal