The Change under Constantine

As we have seen, the first three centuries of our Christian era formed a period of intermittent persecutions for the Christians. As Christ had predicted, all men -- men of every class of society and every station of life -- hailed and harassed God's people. For, as was pointed out, in the eyes of men the followers of Christ formed a strange and dangerous community. They chose to live outside the pale of the religion of Rome. They refused to worship as God the emperor and his stature and to take...