One of the most famous passages in the Old Testament comes from the Book of Ecclesiastes: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
One look at the recent happenings on Beacon Hill confirms the truth of it. The astonishing saga that Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham pieced together and narrated about Massachusetts Senate President Stan Rosenberg and his civil-law husband Byron Hefner harkens back to the Claudian line of Roman emperors almost 2,000 years ago.
