Christianity and Paganism after Constantine

As we saw, in the first three centuries of our Christian era, the Christians were intermittently persecuted. "All the pains, which iron and steel, fire and sword, rack and cross, wild beasts and beastly men could inflict," were employed to terrorize God's people into denying the name of Christ. But, so we saw, in 323 Constantine, the first Christian occupant of the throne of the Caesars, became the sole ruler of the Roman world, and the church was everywhere free from its enemies. Constantine...