MJ William Denman
Puritan Board Freshman
Came across an interesting comment by Tacitus in the 1st Century AD.
What do you suppose the bolded part is in reference to?
Nero fastened the guilt ... on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of ... Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome....
What do you suppose the bolded part is in reference to?