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Tiberius : Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus (42 BC-37AD): second Roman emperor (AD 14-37), who greatly strengthened the institution of the principate, but was vilified as a vicious tyrant by Roman historians.

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... of his trial with its tragic result. The Chronological Table in The Jerusalem Bible 207 notes that Jesus Page 202 was "condemned to death by Pontius Pilate under the Emperor Tiberius (Tacitus, Annals)". C. Northcote Parkinson 208 brings out a very significant aspect of this event in Jesus' life: "In A.D. 30 or thereabouts the High Priest and Council tried him for blasphemy... condemned him to death, and asked the procurator to confirm the sentence. This he was reluctant to do, but the High Priest next informed him that Jesus claimed the kingship of the Jews. Mindful of Tiberius 's severity in matters of treason, and realising that the Council could complain to Ceasar about his lenience, the procurator confirmed the sentence. Jesus was then executed." Evidently the... died so soon, summoned the centurion and enquired if he was already dead. Having been assured of this by the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph..." (15:43-45). 209 Fearing a complaint to Tiberius by the Jews who were intent upon punishing Jesus to the extreme, Pilate could never have entertained a request to hand over Jesus' corpse to anyone not in sympathy with the accusers.   Even ...

... learn that his parents were Devonshire Celts and recover our faith in the Cosmos. And why should we exclaim at the Julian emperors as strange products for stoical virtue-ridden Rome, when we know that Tiberius was a Clausus, one of the great Italian houses renowned for its licence, cruelty, pride and genius, and Caligula the son and Nero the grandson of Germanicus, who drew his blood from Mark Antony. Science ...

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... famous Annals in about 115-120 A.D., deals with Nero's persecution of the Christians in 64 A.D. thus: "Christ, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of the procurator Pontius Pilate; 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 ...

... Prema, Satya, Ishwara, [?Devata], Jnana, Atma—    12 hells in each Notes - VIII Idomeneus. Coriolanus. Antony. Richelieu. C. [Caius] Gracchus St Louis. Charles V. Deiphobus. Brasidas.. T. [Tiberius] Gracchus. Clarence. Louis XII Lafayette. Pompey. T. [Titus] Manlius. Marcellus. Agis. Philip IV. Pausanias. Lysander. B. [Benedict] Arnold Notes - IX χωμοɩ Pericles, Agathon, Alcibiadas ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Record of Yoga
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... looks like. I no longer look round at every fifty yards to see how many policemen in plain clothes are following me. Dacoits and approvers are growing as far away from my mind as Titus Oates or Tiberius. I no longer pant to know our excellent Baikuntha Babu's latest blank question or withdrawn resolution in Bengal's new Parliament or what Bengal's only Maharajadhiraj thinks about English coolies ...

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... in Rome the first political quarrel is a distinct issue between the man of the people and a limited, perhaps an alien, aristocracy. The force behind Cleisthenes and the constituency that empowered Tiberius Gracchus were not a narrow middle class, but the people with its ancient wrongs and centuries of patient endurance. If then, as we are compelled to infer, Mr. Mehta's statement is entirely inaccurate ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Bande Mataram
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... the Thessalonians, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Romans - all strictly the people of the regions contained within the Roman Empire under Caesar Augustus's successors Tiberius and Nero whose reigns covered Paul's ministry. No matter how much to the Page 94 non-jews Christianity or, as Mr. Vedanthan would have it, Paulinism masquerading as Christianity ...

... A Few dates 27BC-AD Principate of Augustus over the Roman Empire 4BC —Birth of Jesus. AD14-AD37 — Principate of Tiberius. AD26 — After having been a carpenter at Nazareth, Jesus begins his public life. AD30 — Crucifixion of Jesus. — Resurrection and ascension. ...

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