{"id":15484,"date":"2025-03-13T17:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15484"},"modified":"2025-03-14T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:01:34","slug":"the-emperor-theodosius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15484\/the-emperor-theodosius\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emperor Theodosius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good Afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My understanding is\u00a0that\u00a0there were\u00a0two emperors named\u00a0Theodosius, and the second one was\u00a0emperor\u00a0just over the Eastern Empire.\u00a0\u00a0Should the fact that he was number 1 been noted in the\u00a0Iron Kingdom section\u00a0we read this morning:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The always confident Gibbon offered this arresting declaration: \u201cThe genius of Rome expired with [the Emperor] Theodosius. \u201dThat such a great historian would make such a statement is surprising for\u00a0several 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.\u00a0\u00a0But his claim that Rome\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I don&#8217;t think there is a need to make that note.\u00a0 The first Theodosius is the only one that matters.\u00a0 Whenever &#8220;Theodosius&#8221; is mentioned, historians know which one is being spoken of, and hardly anyone other than historians knows about the second one.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1900683455215845750\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1900683455215845750<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, Good Afternoon. My understanding is\u00a0that\u00a0there were\u00a0two emperors named\u00a0Theodosius, and the second one was\u00a0emperor\u00a0just over the Eastern Empire.\u00a0\u00a0Should the fact that he was number 1 been noted in the\u00a0Iron Kingdom section\u00a0we read this morning: The always confident Gibbon offered this arresting declaration: \u201cThe genius of Rome expired with [the Emperor] Theodosius. \u201dThat such a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15486,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions\/15486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}