"Reading through the Bible, one often gets the impression that those who people it weren't afraid to move about. Actually, then as now, a certain amount of travel is essential, and not just because merchants had to carry their goods across deserts and mountains to exchange with far-off neighbors, or that the pious wanted to make pilgrimages to holy places.
Often enough, Ambassadors needed to carry messages. Soldiers were required to march to war. And people, had to move their livestock to greener pastures.
And so, roads had to be built."
Odd then, as we've come forward as a people,
that so many stay in one place!
that so many stay in one place!
