\u201cSo the curtain falls for the last time. But Paul\u2019s fate is hardly obscure. He himself saw that the charge against him, unrebutted by independent evidence, must bring him to the executioner\u2019s sword, the last penalty for a Roman citizen. \u2026 But the traditional date (June 29) reaches us only on far later authority. Acts simply suggests the first half of A.D. 62; and we may imagine Timothy reaching Rome in time to share Paul\u2019s last days (cf. Heb. xiii. 23).\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPaul, The Apostle,\u201d The Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/em>, Vol. 20, p. 952.<\/p>\n \u201cThe four Gospels and Paul\u2019s epistles\u2014indeed the bulk of the New Testament\u2014were regarded as authoritative from the first.\u201d<\/p>\n LeRoy Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers<\/em>, Vol. 1, p. 101.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Note: Froom includes a helpful timeline chart<\/a> dated with the concurrent secular history of the Roman Empire and the Caesars, alongside the activity of the first-century church and the dates of writing and authorship of each of the books of the New Testament:<\/p>\n \u201cFor the allocation of books in the accompanying chart, the works of fifty of the most learned of the conservative scholars have been consulted and the preponderant evidence tabulated on disputed points as to dating\u2014such as that of James, Galatians, the Synoptics, Jude, and Peter. Absolute certainty cannot be claimed, but the key books are securely anchored, and the essential outline may be considered dependable.\u201d<\/p>\n LeRoy Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers<\/em>, Vol. 1, pp. 97-100.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n By the time John received this vision, Paul had been martyred thirty years, and his letters were well-known to all the churches and received as authoritative everywhere. If Paul was martyred in the early part of AD\u00a060s as the Britannica suggests (and most church historians agree), and John was exiled to Patmos in AD\u00a095 or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-revelation-1","7":"category-the-things-which-are","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"FroomChart1\"](\"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FroomChart1-300x192.png\")
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<\/a> Charts from LeRoy Froom, The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Vol. 1, pp. 98-99.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"