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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1875 Original Publisher: Rivingtons Subjects: Rome Italy Europe History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / Italy History / Medieval Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE FIRST FOUR CENTURIES. The Church recognised by Constantino. -- Little has been said as yet of one of the most important forces at work within the Empire -- the Christian Church. In three centuries the small body of first believers in Christ, a mere handful in numbers, having all things in common, had grown into a vast and organised Church, wealthy and powerful, whose bishops took equal rank with the military and civil officers of State, and which counted followers in every province of the Empire. Indeed, at the time of its recognition by Constantine, Christianity was already an established society, with its own officers, its own revenues, its own code of laws; and after Constantino's conversion Christians stepped at once into prominence and influence. Thousands of the best and most upright men in the Em pire, previously ignored or persecuted by the State, were thus restored to civil and political life; and of course the State benefited accordingly. This chapter will narrate the fortunes of the Church to the end of the fourth century, and touch upon the means whereby she won her way to recognition, equality, supremacy, and the special difficulties with which she had to contend Christians confounded with Jews. -- Perhaps the most remarkable thing in the rise of Christianity is the silence and obscurity in which it worked its way, and the scanty records that remain to us of its progress. We gather, indeed, from the Acts of the A...
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