“In Hoc Anno Domini” – from WSJ – The late Vermont Royster’s classic 1949 Christmas editorial.
The Wall Street Journal has run this at Christmas every year since 1949. When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.