ArchivedCalling all Catholics!This is from the site above: "The whole government at Rome was becoming, literally, an Oriental court. The people were dressing in long robe-like Syro-Phoenician garb. The Emperor himself dressed like a Babylonian pontiff with full regalia. Or, as Gibbon put it: "He was drawn in his sacerdotal robes of silk and gold, after the loose flowing fashion of the Medes and Phoenicians (clearly Chaldean): his head covered with a lofty tiara, his numerous collars and bracelets were adorned with gems of an inestimable value. What a description! Here was an Emperor-a pontiff himself-dressed exactly like the popes of today-tiara on the head, richly flowing robes and precious jewels, carried about from place to place. He elevated his own Syrian priests to the official priesthood of Rome (Historians' History, vol.6, p. 398). And what is interesting, he commanded everyone to address him as Sardanapolis (Asshur-banipal) and claimed that the Rome Empire was, under him, a revival of the Assyro-Babylonian Empire (ibid., p. 378). He was surnamed "the Assyrian" because of his pretensions (ibid., p. 398). These incidents are all important, for it shows that this priest-emperor was thoroughly Oriental-that is Chaldean." |
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