04-01-2004, 01:25 PM
A couple of things I should have mentioned in the last post...<br>
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I think Pilate's actual title was Prefect, or Prefectus, and not Procurator.<br>
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I forgot to mention Caesarea was also a large urban center.<br>
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For the first six years of Pilate's governorship there was no legate in Syria (Tiberias was keeping him in Rome for some reason), so his access to the Syrian legions may have been limited. Pilate's feeling therefore may have been that any signs of disorder or disrupting influence in the province would have to be stamped out quickly and thoroughly, since he might not have recourse to the legions if things began to get out of hand. The Jewish authorities may have been aware of this handicap, which could be one reason why Pilate's attitude towards the Jews, and his relationship with the Jewish authorities in Jerusalem, seems so strange in the Gospels.<br>
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Gregg <p></p><i></i>
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I think Pilate's actual title was Prefect, or Prefectus, and not Procurator.<br>
<br>
I forgot to mention Caesarea was also a large urban center.<br>
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For the first six years of Pilate's governorship there was no legate in Syria (Tiberias was keeping him in Rome for some reason), so his access to the Syrian legions may have been limited. Pilate's feeling therefore may have been that any signs of disorder or disrupting influence in the province would have to be stamped out quickly and thoroughly, since he might not have recourse to the legions if things began to get out of hand. The Jewish authorities may have been aware of this handicap, which could be one reason why Pilate's attitude towards the Jews, and his relationship with the Jewish authorities in Jerusalem, seems so strange in the Gospels.<br>
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Gregg <p></p><i></i>
