Spoke 8: The Biblewheel and The 8th Century - Emperor Constantine VIs Short Reign

Spoke 8: The Biblewheel and The 8th Century

Emperor Constantine VI's Short Reign

The 8th book of the Bible is Ruth who was a Moabitess. When her husband, brother-in-law and father-in-law died she chose to take care of her mother-in-law Naomi whereas Naomi's other daughter-in-law Orpah had chosen to return to her own people of the Moabites and remarry. But Ruth went with Naomi when she returned to Bethlehem, where she came from. And having married with a kinsman of Naomi and had a child, God restored Naomi the joy.

The key word is restoration.

Likewise a similar event had occurred when Elisha had told the woman whose son he restored to life, to depart to the Philistines. And when she had returned the king had restored the woman her land in 2Kings 8.

But the Empress Irene seemed more like Orpah who returned to her own people, the Moabites, and of course their own custom of idolatry. Orpah means deer or gazelle having a stiff neck, therefore can be interpreted as stiff-necked as well. But her son Constantine VI restored her the kingdom:

Constantine VI

Constantine VI (Ancient Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Ϛ΄, Kōnstantinos VI; 771 – before 805^[1]) was Byzantine Emperor from 780 to 797. The only child of Emperor Leo IV, Constantine was named co-emperor with him at the age of five in 776 and succeeded him as sole Emperor in 780, aged nine. His mother Ireneexercised control over him as regent until 790, assisted by her chief minister Staurakios.

Though the regency lost power when Constantine reached maturity in 790, Irene continued to attempt to exercise control, and retained the title of Empress. Constantine suffered military defeats and made unpopular decisions, such as marrying his mistress, Theodote. Irene had Constantine deposed, blinded and imprisoned in 797 and seized power for herself, becoming the first Empress regnant of the Empire. Constantine likely died shortly thereafter.

Constantine VI was the final ruler to be universally recognized as Roman Emperor, being recognized as such by both the Empire which he ruled in the east, the papacy and the Western European powers over which the pope held suzerainty. With his mother becoming Empress regnant upon his deposition, the papacy crowned Charlemagne as a new Emperor in Western Europe, asserting that a woman could not be Empress in her own right. This laid the foundations of a new polity, independent of the East, that would evolve into the "Holy Roman Empire".^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VI