And if salt loses its head...
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:22 pm
Another, out of the blue appearance of something not expected...
Acts 6: 5 - 6 (RSV):
[5] And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Proch'orus, and Nica'nor, and Ti'mon, and Par'menas, and Nicola'us, a proselyte of Antioch.
[6] These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands upon them.
I believe strongly that this entire section is History Rewritten - Roman History to be exact. The "Little Clue" that is left for all to see is "Nicholas, Hero of Antioch" (various wordings OK.).
Who was "Hero of Antioch?
That would be Octavian => Augustus, who championed that city. This is an inverted List of Caesars, after the not-mentioned Julius.
[Edit: Remember, Julius Caesar was not a Caesar. The first "Caesar" was Augustus.]
That would make Stephen a cipher for one Frugi Piso, the four day Emperor.
Now, I've written about this and if anyone has followed the Trail I found, you note that I believe that the Stephen mentioned in verse 5 is not the Stephen in verse 15. "Stephen" is a composite character.
Acts 6: 15; 7: 58 - 60 (RSV):
[15] And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
...
[58] Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
[59] And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
[60] And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
This person is Calpurnius Galerianus, seen in Tacitus, Histories, Book 4:
"The murder of Calpurnius Galerianus caused the utmost consternation. He was a son of Caius Piso, and had done nothing, but a noble name and his own youthful beauty made him the theme of common talk; and while the country was still unquiet and delighted in novel topics, there were persons who associated him with idle rumours of Imperial honours. By order of Mucianus he was surrounded with a guard of soldiers. Lest his execution in the capital should excite too much notice, they conducted him to the fortieth milestone from Rome on the Appian Road, and there put him to death by opening his veins..."
This Stephen was stoned in Acts. In Histories, his veins are opened. In both citations, the Subject is taken outside the city and murdered. I believe that Saul/Paul is Mucianus.
As I always ask, "Do you fall asleep when you are stoned?"
So, let's move on a bit. In John. we find more info than we get in the Synoptics. In particular, we find that the soudarian, (Latin! Tip of the hat to J. Atwill.), the head bandages, are separated from the body bandages suggesting that in John, the Interregnum is played out at the Tomb. "Soudarian" => Galba is decapitated. Wounded in his side with blood and water flowing out => Otho, at the Po River, when he commits suicide.
Vitellius deserves special scorn. He had homosexual relations with Asiaticus:
Suetonius, 12 Caesars, "Vitellius":
"[Vitellius] regulated the greater part of his rule wholly according to the advice and whims of the commonest of actors and chariot-drivers, and in particular of his freedman Asiaticus. This fellow had immoral relations with Vitellius in his youth, but later grew weary of him and ran away. When Vitellius came upon him selling posca at Puteoli, he put him in irons, but at once freed him again and made him his favourite..."
"Posca" was a mixture of water and vinegar, "The Drink of the Legions". What an Ad Campaign that must have been. Thus, we find the meaning of the vinegar on a sponge on the end of a hyssop stick, as found in the Gospels.
So this is all wrapped up in a pretty box with a pretty little bow...until now. Let's review how Suetonius describes the Death of Galba:
He was killed beside the Lake of Curtius and was left lying just as he was, until a common soldier, returning from a distribution of grain, threw down his load and cut off the head. Then, since there was no hair by which to grasp it, he put it under his robe, but later thrust his thumb into the mouth and so carried it to Otho. He handed it over to his servants and camp-followers, who set it on a lance and paraded it about the camp with jeers, crying out from time to time, "Galba, thou Cupid, exult in thy vigour!" The special reason for this saucy jest was, that the report had gone abroad a few days before, that when someone had congratulated him on still looking young and vigorous, he replied:
"As yet my strength is unimpaired."
From these it was bought by a freedman of Patrobius Neronianus for a hundred pieces of gold and thrown aside in the place where his patron had been executed by Galba's order. At last, however, his steward Argivus consigned it to the tomb with the rest of the body in Galba's private gardens on the Aurelian Road..."
This is why the soudarian bandages are separated from the body bandages in John.
Wait! What if there was another beheading? Didn't someone else get their head chopped off?
Yes. Frugi Piso, the Four Day Emperor.
Tacitus, Histories, Book 1:
"...There, not indeed through the sanctity of the place or its worship, but through the obscurity of his hiding-place, he [Piso] obtained a respite from instant destruction, till there came, by Otho's direction and specially eager to slay him, Sulpicius Florus, of the British auxiliary infantry, to whom Galba had lately given the citizenship, and Statius Murcus, one of the body-guard. Piso was dragged out by these men and slaughtered in the entrance of the temple.
There was, we are told, no death of which Otho heard with greater joy, no head which he surveyed with so insatiable a gaze. Perhaps it was, that his mind was then for the first time relieved from all anxiety, and so had leisure to rejoice; perhaps there was with Galba something to recall departed majesty, with Vinius some thought of old friendship, which troubled with mournful images even that ruthless heart; Piso's death, as that of an enemy and a rival, he felt to be a right and lawful subject of rejoicing. The heads were fixed upon poles and carried about among the standards of the cohorts, close to the eagle of the legion, while those who had struck the blow, those who had been present, those who whether truly or falsely boasted of the act, as of some great and memorable achievement, vied in displaying their bloodstained hands..."
SO, WHAT?
From the ever politicized Wiki-P:
"Licinianus had married Verania Gemina, who came from a family of consular rank. Otho had afterwards surrendered Licinianus’ head to Verania, who had given Otho a large sum of money for it. Verania had buried Licinianus’ head together with his body in a tomb located on the Via Salaria..."
[Note: Pliny, Tactitus and Plutarch are involved here and, again, that supports the Theory that PtY and Tacitus had a great deal of input into the NT.]
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZT34_ ... so&f=false]
AND AGAIN, SO WHAT?
Verania Gemina gets Frugi's head and takes it to a tomb on the Via Salaria. What is the "Via Salaria"?
Wiki-P, "Via Salaria"
"The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy.
"It eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls) to Castrum Truentinum (Porto d'Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast, a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate (Rieti) and Asculum (Ascoli Piceno). The Via Salaria owes its name to the Latin word for "salt", since it was the route by which the Sabines living nearer the Tyrrhenian sea came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber, the Campus Salinarum, while those nearer the Adriatic Sea used it to fetch it from production sites there. It was one of many ancient salt roads in Europe, and some historians... consider the Salaria and the trade in salt to have been the origin of the settlement of Rome."
Now, this is a long stretch (of road...) but it is suggestive of something:
Matthew 5: 13 (RSV):
[13] "You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
[Edit Addition: Note the "Little Joke": "Men" may travel on foot just about anywhere but as time passes, they tend to travel on foot by way of roads. Here, by an old "Salt Road".]
For those of the Roman Thesis persuasion, this entire section points to a Minority Report concerning the Interregnum between the Julio-Claudians and the Flavians. Galba: Murdered and beheaded. Frugi Piso: Murdered and beheaded. Otho: Suicide. Vitellius: murdered. Galerianus: Murdered. Central Player in all of this: Mucianus.
I still believe the arrangement of those who are crucified in John is a summary of the Caesars who lived and died before the Flavians. There is still, it appears, some more History to "Divine".
CW
Acts 6: 5 - 6 (RSV):
[5] And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Proch'orus, and Nica'nor, and Ti'mon, and Par'menas, and Nicola'us, a proselyte of Antioch.
[6] These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands upon them.
I believe strongly that this entire section is History Rewritten - Roman History to be exact. The "Little Clue" that is left for all to see is "Nicholas, Hero of Antioch" (various wordings OK.).
Who was "Hero of Antioch?
That would be Octavian => Augustus, who championed that city. This is an inverted List of Caesars, after the not-mentioned Julius.
[Edit: Remember, Julius Caesar was not a Caesar. The first "Caesar" was Augustus.]
That would make Stephen a cipher for one Frugi Piso, the four day Emperor.
Now, I've written about this and if anyone has followed the Trail I found, you note that I believe that the Stephen mentioned in verse 5 is not the Stephen in verse 15. "Stephen" is a composite character.
Acts 6: 15; 7: 58 - 60 (RSV):
[15] And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
...
[58] Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
[59] And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
[60] And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
This person is Calpurnius Galerianus, seen in Tacitus, Histories, Book 4:
"The murder of Calpurnius Galerianus caused the utmost consternation. He was a son of Caius Piso, and had done nothing, but a noble name and his own youthful beauty made him the theme of common talk; and while the country was still unquiet and delighted in novel topics, there were persons who associated him with idle rumours of Imperial honours. By order of Mucianus he was surrounded with a guard of soldiers. Lest his execution in the capital should excite too much notice, they conducted him to the fortieth milestone from Rome on the Appian Road, and there put him to death by opening his veins..."
This Stephen was stoned in Acts. In Histories, his veins are opened. In both citations, the Subject is taken outside the city and murdered. I believe that Saul/Paul is Mucianus.
As I always ask, "Do you fall asleep when you are stoned?"
So, let's move on a bit. In John. we find more info than we get in the Synoptics. In particular, we find that the soudarian, (Latin! Tip of the hat to J. Atwill.), the head bandages, are separated from the body bandages suggesting that in John, the Interregnum is played out at the Tomb. "Soudarian" => Galba is decapitated. Wounded in his side with blood and water flowing out => Otho, at the Po River, when he commits suicide.
Vitellius deserves special scorn. He had homosexual relations with Asiaticus:
Suetonius, 12 Caesars, "Vitellius":
"[Vitellius] regulated the greater part of his rule wholly according to the advice and whims of the commonest of actors and chariot-drivers, and in particular of his freedman Asiaticus. This fellow had immoral relations with Vitellius in his youth, but later grew weary of him and ran away. When Vitellius came upon him selling posca at Puteoli, he put him in irons, but at once freed him again and made him his favourite..."
"Posca" was a mixture of water and vinegar, "The Drink of the Legions". What an Ad Campaign that must have been. Thus, we find the meaning of the vinegar on a sponge on the end of a hyssop stick, as found in the Gospels.
So this is all wrapped up in a pretty box with a pretty little bow...until now. Let's review how Suetonius describes the Death of Galba:
He was killed beside the Lake of Curtius and was left lying just as he was, until a common soldier, returning from a distribution of grain, threw down his load and cut off the head. Then, since there was no hair by which to grasp it, he put it under his robe, but later thrust his thumb into the mouth and so carried it to Otho. He handed it over to his servants and camp-followers, who set it on a lance and paraded it about the camp with jeers, crying out from time to time, "Galba, thou Cupid, exult in thy vigour!" The special reason for this saucy jest was, that the report had gone abroad a few days before, that when someone had congratulated him on still looking young and vigorous, he replied:
"As yet my strength is unimpaired."
From these it was bought by a freedman of Patrobius Neronianus for a hundred pieces of gold and thrown aside in the place where his patron had been executed by Galba's order. At last, however, his steward Argivus consigned it to the tomb with the rest of the body in Galba's private gardens on the Aurelian Road..."
This is why the soudarian bandages are separated from the body bandages in John.
Wait! What if there was another beheading? Didn't someone else get their head chopped off?
Yes. Frugi Piso, the Four Day Emperor.
Tacitus, Histories, Book 1:
"...There, not indeed through the sanctity of the place or its worship, but through the obscurity of his hiding-place, he [Piso] obtained a respite from instant destruction, till there came, by Otho's direction and specially eager to slay him, Sulpicius Florus, of the British auxiliary infantry, to whom Galba had lately given the citizenship, and Statius Murcus, one of the body-guard. Piso was dragged out by these men and slaughtered in the entrance of the temple.
There was, we are told, no death of which Otho heard with greater joy, no head which he surveyed with so insatiable a gaze. Perhaps it was, that his mind was then for the first time relieved from all anxiety, and so had leisure to rejoice; perhaps there was with Galba something to recall departed majesty, with Vinius some thought of old friendship, which troubled with mournful images even that ruthless heart; Piso's death, as that of an enemy and a rival, he felt to be a right and lawful subject of rejoicing. The heads were fixed upon poles and carried about among the standards of the cohorts, close to the eagle of the legion, while those who had struck the blow, those who had been present, those who whether truly or falsely boasted of the act, as of some great and memorable achievement, vied in displaying their bloodstained hands..."
SO, WHAT?
From the ever politicized Wiki-P:
"Licinianus had married Verania Gemina, who came from a family of consular rank. Otho had afterwards surrendered Licinianus’ head to Verania, who had given Otho a large sum of money for it. Verania had buried Licinianus’ head together with his body in a tomb located on the Via Salaria..."
[Note: Pliny, Tactitus and Plutarch are involved here and, again, that supports the Theory that PtY and Tacitus had a great deal of input into the NT.]
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZT34_ ... so&f=false]
AND AGAIN, SO WHAT?
Verania Gemina gets Frugi's head and takes it to a tomb on the Via Salaria. What is the "Via Salaria"?
Wiki-P, "Via Salaria"
"The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy.
"It eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls) to Castrum Truentinum (Porto d'Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast, a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate (Rieti) and Asculum (Ascoli Piceno). The Via Salaria owes its name to the Latin word for "salt", since it was the route by which the Sabines living nearer the Tyrrhenian sea came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber, the Campus Salinarum, while those nearer the Adriatic Sea used it to fetch it from production sites there. It was one of many ancient salt roads in Europe, and some historians... consider the Salaria and the trade in salt to have been the origin of the settlement of Rome."
Now, this is a long stretch (of road...) but it is suggestive of something:
Matthew 5: 13 (RSV):
[13] "You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
[Edit Addition: Note the "Little Joke": "Men" may travel on foot just about anywhere but as time passes, they tend to travel on foot by way of roads. Here, by an old "Salt Road".]
For those of the Roman Thesis persuasion, this entire section points to a Minority Report concerning the Interregnum between the Julio-Claudians and the Flavians. Galba: Murdered and beheaded. Frugi Piso: Murdered and beheaded. Otho: Suicide. Vitellius: murdered. Galerianus: Murdered. Central Player in all of this: Mucianus.
I still believe the arrangement of those who are crucified in John is a summary of the Caesars who lived and died before the Flavians. There is still, it appears, some more History to "Divine".
CW