- "Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the
sword shall perish with the sword" ...
- dying by the sword isn't necessarily a bad thing. If we live by the sword, surely we may die by it -
Consider the Norse....
Viking warriors who died bravely would be carried by the Valkyries to Valhalla and be welcomed to the afterlife by
Odin, with whom they would feast every night.
Those that simply died of sickness and old age went to Hel.
IT may not be too late for you to change from christian
to heathen.
.. well know what a centurion was, how he got that job
and how he kept it on the Galilean frontier.
He would be a straight up "bad dude" a force to be reckoned with..
No underating a centurion and his legionaires
, but if not for the badass Fighting ability of non-roman citizen auxiliaries and their substantial numbers
the Empire would never have reached the level it did.
They were largely seen as 'babarians' by the Roman elite,
but were far too proven capable fighters to pass up.
