The Gainsayers (1)

(The Literary Contest of Christianity in the First Three Centuries) The Christians in the Graeco-Roman world were a people who, by the mercy of God, had identified themselves with the truth in Christ Jesus. For the truth they witnessed. Christ's name they confessed before men. And the result was, as we have seen, that the nameless pollutions of Rome were roused to a frenzy of rage. For Rome's works were evil and the religion of Christ, the truth, was pure. So an attempt was made by the wicked,...