Be Patient with Your Enemies Because They Might Soon Be Friends
In the year 410, Rome fell to Alaric and the Visigoths. In light of those events, Jerome would write, “My voice is choked, broken with sobs as I dictate this letter. The city that conquered the entire earth has now itself been conquered” (Nick Needham, 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, 321). Romans, having enjoyed such…