John,
Good Afternoon.
My understanding is that there were two emperors named Theodosius, and the second one was emperor just over the Eastern Empire. Should the fact that he was number 1 been noted in the Iron Kingdom section we read this morning:
The always confident Gibbon offered this arresting declaration: “The genius of Rome expired with [the Emperor] Theodosius. ”That such a great historian would make such a statement is surprising for several reasons, not the least of which is his own suggestion that the last spark of Roman culture was extinguished over a thousand years later, when Constantinople fell. But his claim that Rome’s genius died with the Emperor Theodosius is manifestly false, for it was Theodosius who secured the success of the Synthesis, when Theodosius made Christianity the only religion allowed in the Empire.
Wendell
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Hi Wendell.
I don’t think there is a need to make that note. The first Theodosius is the only one that matters. Whenever “Theodosius” is mentioned, historians know which one is being spoken of, and hardly anyone other than historians knows about the second one.
Pastor John
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