Destruction and Transformation of the Cosmos in the Book of Revelation | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Augustus Caesar and the Animal Hunts
The emperor would give his permission, and Augustus did this, for people to build up shrines that would put statues of the emperor next to statues of the gods. This was being put forward as someone who controlled and really imported order on not only the human world, but also on the cosmos itself. There was also these things you might have watched, I forget what they were called now, Venerotseonus or something like that. They would send their armies to the far reaches of the empire, Africa, the Middle East, to get animals to bring them to Rome and to make them fight each other in the Colosseum. It wasn't just for some kind of idle
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