History
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.
was the fourth Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian
dynasty. Born in Lugdunum in Gaul (modern-day
Lyon, France), to Drusus and Antonia Minor,
he was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside
Italy.
Acts 11:28 Which came to pass in the days
of Claudius Caesar.
Roman Historian Suetonis
Confirms Acts 18
"He banished from Rome all the Jews, who
were continually making disturbances at
the instigation
of one Chrestus. -Christ."
Suetonis - Lives of the Twelve Caesars -
Claudius 25
Acts 18:2 Because Claudius had commanded
all Jews to depart from Rome
Emperor Claudius - Letter to the Alexandrians
"I explicitly order the Jews not to agitate
for more privileges than they formerly possessed,
and not in the future to send out a separate
embassy as though they lived in a separate
city (a thing unprecedented), and not to
force their way into gymnasiarchic or cosmetic
games, while enjoying their own privileges
and sharing a great abundance of advantages
in a city not their own, and
not to bring in or admit Jews who come down the river
from Egypt or from Syria, a proceeding which
will compel me to conceive serious suspicions.
Otherwise I will by all means take vengeance
on them as fomenters of which is a general
plague infecting the whole world"
The full transcription of the letter to the
Alexandrians
The Gallio - Delphi Inscription
Claudius and Gallio are both listed on
this inscription and both of them are mentioned
in the New
Testament.
"Tiberius
Claudius Caesar
Augustus Germanicus, Highest Priest, invested
with tribunician
authority
Gallio, my friend and proconsul recently
reported to me; and being desirous that
Delphi."
The full transcription
The inscription
is written in Greek and is a copy of a
decree
of the
Roman
Emperor
Claudius (A.D. 41–54) who commanded
L. Iunius Gallio, the governor, to assist
in settling additional elite persons in
Delphi—in an effort to revitalize
it.
The inscription dates between April and July
A.D., 52, and from it, it can be deduced that
Gallio was the proconsul of Achaia in the previous
year. Thus Paul’s eighteenth month stay
in Corinth (Acts 18:1–18) included the
year 51. This inscription is critical in helping
to establish the Chronology of Paul as presented
in the book of Acts.
View all 9 pieces of the inscription
The Arch of Claudius
The Arch of Claudius was dedicated in AD 51
to commemorate his victories in Britain (Suetonius,
XVII), although it was anticipated on the reverse
of coins issued in AD 46-47 and AD 49. The
reconstructed inscription reads
"The Roman Senate and People to Tiberius Claudius
Caesar Augustus Germanicus, son of Drusus,
Pontifex Maximus"
Scriptures
Acts 18:2 Because Claudius had
commanded all Jews to depart from Rome
Acts 11:28 Which
came to pass in the days of Claudius
Caesar.
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