Placing & Dating the Earthquake
Recorded in Acts 16
Location:
The prison of Thyatira in Macedonia
Cf.
verses 12, 14, 23-24, and 40 below:
Date:
Near
Per the deductions arrived at from studying Acts it
seems that the fall
of 40 CE is the most likely time for this event.
Is this
the same earthquake referenced by Seneca?
Seneca said:
"The comet which
appeared in the consulship of Paterculus
and Vopiscus did what was
predicted by Aristotle and Theophrastus: for there were very violent and
continuous storms everywhere, and in Achaia and
“Velleius Paterculus
Gaius (abt. 19 B.C. – after 30 A.D.) was a Roman historian who served in the
army in
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[Footnote 65: Flavius Vopiscus in Aurelian. c. 45, in Hist.
Exercitat. in Solinum, p. 694, 695. The Anecdotes of Procopius
(c. 25) state a partial and imperfect rate of the
price of silk
in the time of Justinian.]
[Footnote 7: Gens Germana feritate ferocior, says
Velleius
Paterculus of the
nobilitat.
Plurimis ac valentissimis nationibus cincti non per
obsequium, sed praeliis et perilitando, tuti sunt,
(Tacit. de
Moribus German. c. 40.) See likewise Strabo, (l. viii.
p. 446.)
The best geographers place them beyond the
of Magdeburgh and the middle march of Brandenburgh;
and their
situation will agree with the
Hertzberg, that most of the Barbarian conquerors
issued from the
same countries which still produce the armies of
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[Footnote 45: I leave Scaliger (Animadvers. in Euseb. p. 59) and Salmasius (Exercitat. Plinian. p. 51, 52) to quarrel about the origin of Cumae, the oldest of the Greek colonies in Italy, (Strab. l. v. p. 372, Velleius Paterculus, l. i. c. 4,) already vacant in Juvenal's time, (Satir. iii.,) and now in ruins.]
”Seneca Natural Questions [Book
7.sect. 28.3] "The comet which appeared in the consulship
of Paterculus and Vopiscus did what
waspredicted by Aristotle and Theophrastus: for there were very violent and
continuous storms everywhere, and in Achaia and
There was a comet
seen in
Act
Act
16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by
a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto
the women which resorted thither.
Act
16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a
seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she
attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Act
Act
Act
Act
Act