Paul’s House Arrest in Rome and Our Home Isolation

What do these unusual days make possible?

These unusual days in which we find ourselves homebound reflect, in a way, Pauls days under house arrest in Rome. Our home isolation amounts to a couple of months. But Pauls incarceration lasted two years.

(Photo: Insula in Rome by Lalupa/Public domain)

In Rome today stands an apartment from the 1st-2nd century, roughly the time of Pauls first imprisonment in the city. These types of quarters, called insula, were literally everywhere in Rome. This...