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Who remembers Ctesiphon or Susa or Ecbatana, the capitals of once great empires? Carthage is a desert plain sowed with salt. Memphis is a vast sand-rippled tomb. Rome remains; but it was the “criminal” Peter, true to the last to his love for the master, who saved her. A Christian of any persuasion can relish the irony of a redemption that no one but an old Jewish fisherman, about to be executed, could see.
Anthony Esolen retells this Bible Story using Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, an historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo vadis is Latin for “Where are you going?” and alludes to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says “I am going back to be crucified again”, which makes Peter go back to Rome and accept martyrdom. It’s a moving story, take some time to reacquaint yourself here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/07/27/%e2%80%9cdost-thou-love-me%e2%80%9d/
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Who remembers Ctesiphon or Susa or Ecbatana, the capitals of once great empires? Carthage is a desert plain sowed with salt. Memphis is a vast sand-rippled tomb. Rome remains; but it was the “criminal” Peter, true to the last to his love for the master, who saved her. A Christian of any persuasion can relish the irony of a redemption that no one but an old Jewish fisherman, about to be executed, could see.
Anthony Esolen retells this Bible Story using Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, an historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo vadis is Latin for “Where are you going?” and alludes to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says “I am going back to be crucified again”, which makes Peter go back to Rome and accept martyrdom. It’s a moving story, take some time to reacquaint yourself here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/07/27/%e2%80%9cdost-thou-love-me%e2%80%9d/
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