Scrolls & Secrets
Why Paul Warned Rome's Church They'd Be Cut Off Too
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Paul told the most powerful congregation on earth that God would snap them off like a dead branch — and he meant it as a warning, not a metaphor. In the late 50s CE, a Gentile-majority church in Rome was riding high. The Jewish believers had been expelled under Emperor Claudius and only recently returned, and in their absence the Gentiles had built the community — and started assuming they were…