By Revd Allen Brent

Utilizing a contra-cultural version of social interplay, this article examines the interplay among Pagan and early Christian structures of social order concentrating on the Imperial cult because it built, including shared metaphysical assumptions, pari passu with Church Order.

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R a t h e r physics, like metaphysics, was used to service theories of ethics. T h e r e was a n e e d to k n o w the n a t u r e of the universe in o r d e r to discover h o w ethically the b e h a v i o u r of h u m a n beings could fit within it. T h e E p i c u r e a n dis­ covered that d e a t h , in the light of a n atomic theory of the universe, was dissolution a n d that there was n o fear of eternal p u n i s h m e n t , a n d this as such was the purely ethical value of G r e e k atomism.

In opposition to such a view, Balbus proposes by m e a n s of Stoicism to justify philo­ sophically the religious rites a n d practices in which the wavering C o t t a has to participate, although the latter has some doubts a b o u t their final validity. 3 4 2 Eisner (1991), p. 5 2 . In Cicero, De Orat. 3,78 Velleius is m e n t i o n e d as a friend o f L. Licinius Crassus, and also the two Balbi. De Nat. Deor. " 3 4 CHAPTER TWO 20 2A 1. The political and constitutional significance of divination As Balbus is quick to point out, C o t t a ' s participation in divination a n d augury were not a matter of private conscience separate from his civic duty as a magistrate.

T h e disease also was a case of divine displeasure, of the deum ira T h e Senate orders individual prayers (3,7,7). T h e way in which the disease passes is described as follows: 21 . . litde by little, either because the peace of the gods had been ob­ tained by request (pace deum impetrata) or because the more difficult time of year had passed, bodies deadened by diseases began to recover their health. 22 It is at first sight curious that Livy is sceptical a b o u t the obtaining the pax deum impetrata by individual private prayer, in place of the deum ira m a r k e d by the plague.

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