ASIN: B00HI8AB1K
Publisher: Corbett's
Pages: 26
"We are getting into the book of Romans this
evening—moving through our Bible study series.
This is the halfway spot in this series of the Life
and Letters of Paul. After this evening, we will
be halfway through this particular series. We are
focusing this evening on Paul’s letter to the
Romans.
Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire. It
was the great city of the ancient world. At the
time of Paul, Rome had a population in excess of
1.2 million. It was the largest city that existed up
until modern times. I think London surpassed
this population somewhere around 1800. London
was the next city to reach this sort of population.
Rome went into a decline in later years. During
the period of the Middle Ages, the population
was dramatically lower than this. After the
decline of the Roman Empire, it was all the way
up into the 1800s before London, and later Paris,
reached ...
