THEOS: (yeos) God (equivalent to the Hebrew Elohim), 1,000 times in the NT. In the NT all the persons of the trinity are called God at one time or another. I AM: Jesus upset his generation especially when He said, Before Abraham was, I AM, John 8:58.
The Black Death, 1348. Printer Friendly Version >>>. Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history. By the time the epidemic played itself out three years later, anywhere between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had fallen victim to the pestilence.
Man and Disease: The Black Death. Beginning in 1347 and continuing for a full five years, a devastating plague swept Europe, leaving in its wake more than twenty million people dead. This epidemic now known as the Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague which had begun somewhere in the heart of Asia and spread westward along trade routes.