and so, somehow or another, pliny is forced to deal with is as a criminal matter. >> pliny gennely wassees what appear to be good, law-abiding citizens being hauled up on trumped-up charges of being a christian, and simply on that basis, by convention, being subject to capital punishment. so i think pliny allows us a rare glimpse into the moral and legal conundrum that christianity posed for scrupulous, morally scrupulous roman officials. >> (dramatized): t method i have observed is this: i interrogated whether they were christians. if they confessed it, i repeated the question twice again, adding the threat of capital punishment. if they still persevered, i ordered them to be executed. >> pliny allows, in his correspondence, how this really is onef the most stubborn groups of people he's ever encountered. and th in itself seems to warrant a rather... a rather strident attack on the christians. >> (dramatiz): i judged it so much the more necessa to extract the real truth, with the assistance of torture, from two female slaves who were styled deaconesses. but i could discover nothing mo

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this kind of a rupture is now known as a pliny interruption. pumice and ash then rained down on pompei people had no time to flee, and were buried in an instant. the corpses eventually decomposed, leaving a hollow imprint in the compacted ash. scientists later filled the cavities with plaster. these plaster casts of the people of pompei show their desperate attempts to escape the deadly ash with dish. yeah, mollified chevy jam or you can see the expression on the face and the position of the body. this is vitally important because it allows us to capture the person's last moments love and to understand what actually caused that bad quality. so not yet ain't again, other than you know, almost any wasted was the best. after 19 hours of this devastating ash rain, the eruption entered its 2nd even more deadly phase. as the gas pressure dropped, the 32 kilometer plume of smoke imploded. this triggered an avalanche of fire, called pyro plastic flows, traveling down the sides of the volcano at hundreds of kilometers an hour in the ruins of this roman villa, archaeologists just covered victims

this kind of a rupture is now known as a pliny interruption. pumice and ash then rained down on pompei people, had no time to flee, and were buried in an instant. the corpses eventually decomposed, leaving a hollow imprint in the compacted ash. scientists later filled the cavities with plaster. these plaster casts of the people of pompei show their desperate attempts to escape the deadly ash with dish. yeah, mollified chevy jam, or you can see the expression on the face and the position of the body. this is vitally important because it allows us to capture the person's last moments love and to understand what actually caused that bad quality. so not yet ain't the general good any. not the law most any wasted was the best. after 19 hours of this devastating ash rain, the eruption entered its 2nd even more deadly phase. as the gas pressure dropped, the 32 kilometer plume of smoke imploded. this triggered an avalanche of fire, called pyro plastic flows, traveling down the sides of the volcano at hundreds of kilometers an hour in the ruins of this roman villa, archaeologists just covered v

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pliny upheld the civic religion.what christians believe it to be, it's it is both history, but also it transcends history. it's the fulcrum of history. it's the fulcrum of history. it's the most cosmically significant event in human history in all history. it's a moment of recreation . i it's a moment of recreation. i love the way g.k. it's a moment of recreation. i love the way gk. chesterton describes this, the moment of the apostles sort of stepping in to the garden on easter morning and saying what they saw was a moment of new creation or recreation, a new heaven and a new earth , a time in which god new earth, a time in which god walked again as a gardener. this time not in the cool of the evening, but of the dawn. when god called himself the god of abraham , isaac and jacob. he abraham, isaac and jacob. he implied that those holy- implied that those holy ooinionene— implied that those holy patriarchs were still alive, inowgn— patriarchs were still alive, onongn inew— patriarchs were still alive, though they wer