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.
Black Death or the Great Plague. The second pandemic, widely known as the Black Death or the Great Plague, originated in China in 1334 and spread along the great trade routes to Constantinople and then to Europe, where it claimed an estimated 60% of the European population (Benedictow, 2008). Entire towns were wiped out.