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Agnes Christina Laut. The Quenchless Light
The Quenchless Light
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. NEITHER BOND NOR FREE
CHAPTER II. ARDATH, THE FIELD OF FLOWERS
CHAPTER III. THE SWORD AND THE SUNBURST
CHAPTER IV. NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES
CHAPTER V “AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH”
FOREWORD TO APPENDIX
APPENDIX A. CONCERNING PAUL’S MISSIONARY TOURS. AND DISPUTED POINTS
THE FAMILY OF HEROD THE GREAT
APPENDIX B. OLD DOCUMENTS AND MODERN VIEWS. ON THE HEROD FAMILY
APPENDIX C. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FALL OF. JERUSALEM AND THE BREAKING UP. OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
APPENDIX D. THE DISPUTES AS TO THECLA IN. LEGEND AND HISTORY
APPENDIX E. CONCERNING THE EARLY GNOSTICS AND. APOLLOS AND APOLLONIUS AND JOHN
FINALE
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Agnes Christina Laut
Published by Good Press, 2021
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To his youthful heart it seemed no evil thing that she should come to Rome and marry Titus, Vespasian’s son, where he again could be her page. He could not know that all Rome was now counting on General Vespasian to save the Empire and become Emperor. He would not have had long to wait, as destiny soon rolled the years to Vespasian’s triumphial entry into Rome—if the harpy women of the wine shops on the water front had not taken note of his beauty and set the bargemen on to kidnap him as bait for higher game in Nero’s Palace, where ruled an evil woman, guided only by her own wicked desires.
The boy heard the door clank as the Prætorian guard drew the chain across outside and snapped the great twin locks with a key as long as a man’s forearm. He heard the ring of the swift soldier tread as the Idumean strode over the stones for the Three Taverns.
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