History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

equally revered by devout Jews and Christians, as the "Rampart of the People" (Obliam), and the intercessor of Israel who prayed ...

Analysis of the Decree. The decree of the council was a compromise and had two aspects: it was emancipatory, and restrictive. (1 ...

with fornication, and denounces them together.^462 Paul had to struggle against this laxity in the Corinthian congregation, and ...

The accounts agree as to the contending parties—Jerusalem and Antioch—the leaders on both sides, the topic of controversy, the s ...

was forced, but on account of the false brethren, to whom we might yield for a moment without submitting ourselves in principle. ...

The conservative view was orthodox, and must not be confounded with the Judaizing heresy which demanded circumcision from the Ge ...

The subsequent separation of Paul from Barnabas and Mark, which the author of Acts frankly relates, was no doubt partly connecte ...

between two fires on that trying occasion. As Jews they seemed to be bound by the restrictions of the Jerusalem compromise on wh ...

The fearless remonstrance of Paul had probably a moderating effect upon James and his elders, but did not alter their practice i ...

§ 36. Christianity in Rome. I. On the general, social, and moral condition of Rome under the Emperors: Ludwig Friedländer: Sitte ...

and Greek life. Large numbers of the foreigners were freedmen, who generally took the family name of their masters. Many of them ...

fortunetellers. Not a few found their way to the court. Alityrus, a Jewish actor, enjoyed the highest favor of Nero. Thallus, a ...

When Paul arrived in Rome he invited the rulers of the synagogues to a conference, that he might show them his good will and giv ...

The first historic trace of Christianity in Rome we have in a notice of the heathen historian Suetonius, confirmed by Luke, that ...

was in view of this fact, and in prophetic anticipation of its future importance, that Paul addressed to it from Corinth his mos ...

Composition and Consolidation of the Roman Church. The composition of the church of Rome has been a matter of much learned contr ...

held by the church of Rome, was originally Greek. The first Latin version of the Bible was not made for Rome, but for the provin ...

in his epigrams; but this is doubtful.^512 A generation later two cousins of the Emperor Domitian (81–96), T. Flavius Clemens, c ...

enduring than that of the Caesars. The cross was substituted for the sword as the symbol of conquest and power.^515 But the chan ...

The Conflagration in Rome. For such a demon in human shape, the murder of a crowd of innocent Christians was pleasant sport. The ...