06-14-2009, 11:04 PM
Quote:It was reportedly recorded not long after, some say around 63AD, with the very end verses added during the last years of Paul's life. 2 Corinthians is said to have been written (by Paul) in 60, Titus in 67, 2 Timothy in 68, the year Nero died. (Jerusalem was sacked in 70)
But I think Paul was not held for long in any prison, if at all, since Acts 28:30 says (in King James) "And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him..." More likely, he was under house arrest until his hearing before Nero, and executed (by beheading, traditional history says) as part of Nero's final persecution of Christians.
Then came the year of 4 emperors, and the rest is history.
There is Acts 29, a little known piece of work. It was not included in the Bible because it was determined to be of little or no use theology or spiritual wise. In it, Paul was released from his "house arrest." He traveled to Spain and elsewhere, to later be taken back to Rome where he was imprisoned and then executed. There is other evidence that backs this up in the "Early Church Fathers" volumes.
