Rome Under Pius IX.
by Stephen Watson Fullom (9781150048234)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: Charles J. Skeet Subjects: Rome Italy History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / Italy Travel / Europe / Italy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. ST. PETER AND ST. PETERS'. We wonder at the juggles of the Church of Rome, but these are surpassed by her fables, which' scorn limit. An instance presents itself in the appropriation of St. Peter as her first bishop. Not only is there no proof that St. Peter visited Rome, but it is contradicted by every fact, and the whole story is a fabrication. The " Acts" leave him in Judea, and his first Epistle shows that he afterwards proceeded to Babylon, whence his ministry extended " to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Ga- latia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia."f He 1 Peter, v. 13. f ] Peter, i. 1. remained in this field to the last; for his second epistle speaks of his approaching death: -- " Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle" -- and he intimates that it is addressed to the same flock as the first -- " this second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you."f The Roman visit is admitted to be impossible, if the epistles were really composed at Babylon, but this is denied, and the name is said to be a figurative term for Rome. Such a conclusion is farfetched, indeed, and betokens a lame case; for the inscription of the epistle proves that Babylon itself is meant, fixing the field of the writer's labours in the surrounding region. It is not improbable that he had sought its ruins as a refuge in a time of persecution, and that his martyrdom was consummated in the neighbouring city of Seleucia. Neither his writings nor de...

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