MATT456 - Caligula Knows How to Make an Entrance

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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MATTHEW 21:1-11 On this podcast we pick books of the Bible and work through them from beginning to end, bit by bit every day. This show exists because of listener support. If you'd like to consider supporting, you can learn more at thetmbh.com/support or check out the Patreon support page at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Music written and performed by Jeff Foote.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast, and I have a question
0:13.9	for you.
0:14.9	Do you remember from your high school or college world history class, remember talking
0:19.7	about the Emperor Caligula?
0:22.2	He's kind of a little-known guy who crops up, I think it's 37 to 41 AD, it was tempted
0:28.8	to stand back.
0:29.8	I'm pretty sure those are the dates that he was actually there, 37 to 41, if not, I don't
0:33.5	mind looking like an idiot in front of you.
0:35.5	So it's very short lived.
0:36.7	He was in there for the length of one presidential term, in terms of at least my country at any
0:42.6	rate.
0:43.6	And he was nuts.
0:44.6	He just did crazy stuff.
0:45.8	He's the guy who took the whole role of Emperor, the off the cliff, over the shark, into
0:50.6	Crazyville.
0:51.6	He has all of these elaborate exploits, but the history around him is, it's also kind of
0:56.1	murky.
0:57.1	A lot of those first century Roman historians, I think the Ocasius talks about him a whole
1:01.9	bunch, and then the big name guys as well.
1:05.2	When he comes up, it's always just like, eh, he boasted this, he said that, people said
1:09.5	this about him, but there's not really a lot of direct attestation about him.
1:14.8	It's almost more myth than man when it comes to the madness of Caligula.
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