Book Review: Quintus
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Quintus
Book Author: R Weerstand
Review Author: Ann
Armadale Free Reformed Church
Quintus
A story about the persecution of Christians at the time of Emperor Nero
by R. Weerstand
135 pages/2006
Quintus, a 16-year-old citizen of Rome in 64AD, enjoys attending the arena where Nero offers barbaric entertainment in the form of fights to the death. Sometimes men fight each other, sometimes they fight wild animals, and Quintus gives no thought to the cruelty and lack of love and pity. Nero is the divine Caesar who must be honoured as a god, and who ultimately decides who lives and who dies.
When Quintus goes to work for the tentmaker Aquila and his wife Priscilla, he is confronted with the Christian religion, where people care, give freely, show love, and worship God and the Saviour Jesus Christ. When Nero satisfies his own insane desire to see a burning city, and Rome is set alight, the Christians are blamed, persecuted and sent to the arena to die. Quintus must choose to follow God or deny Him to save his own life.
By Ann Amoraal, FRC Armadale