The Fulness of Time (1)

Most historians maintain that at His coming Christ found the world in a state of preparedness. Attending to the various delineations on this state, one discovers that what is meant is that in the years preceding the advent of Christ, the pagan world had been rendered receptive to the truth through the previous develop­ment in the history of nations. So the church historian Neander. Declaring that although Christianity can be understood only as something which is above nature and reason,...