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  2. Romans 4 - Wikipedia

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    Romans 4 is the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle , while he was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD, [ 1 ] with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius , who adds his own greeting in Romans 16:22 . [ 2 ]

  3. Epistle to the Romans - Wikipedia

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    The large number of names in Romans 16:3–15 [34] of those then in Rome, and verses 5, 15 and 16, indicate there was more than one church assembly or company of believers in Rome. Verse 5 mentions a church that met in the house of Aquila and Priscilla .

  4. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Romans used a duodecimal rather than a decimal system for fractions, as the divisibility of twelve (12 = 2 2 × 3) makes it easier to handle the common fractions of 1 ⁄ 3 and 1 ⁄ 4 than does a system based on ten (10 = 2 × 5).

  5. Romans 5 - Wikipedia

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    Romans 5 is the fifth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle , while he was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD, [ 1 ] with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius , who adds his own greeting in Romans 16:22 . [ 2 ]

  6. Textual variants in the Epistle to the Romans - Wikipedia

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    They may resort to performing a rearranging of words to retain the overall meaning without compromising the context. ... [4] [5] General sigla ... Romans 4:23-5:3 in ...

  7. Pietas - Wikipedia

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    Pietas erga parentes (" pietas toward one's parents") was one of the most important aspects of demonstrating virtue. Pius as a cognomen originated as way to mark a person as especially "pious" in this sense: announcing one's personal pietas through official nomenclature seems to have been an innovation of the late Republic, when Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius claimed it for his efforts to ...

  8. Augury - Wikipedia

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    An augur with sacred chicken; he holds a lituus, the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins. Augury was a Greco-Roman religious practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens.

  9. Family in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Romans had different names to describe their concepts of family, such as, "familia" to describe the nuclear family and "domus" which would have included all the inhabitants of the household. [1] The types of interactions between the different members of the family were dictated by the perceived social roles each member played.