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This introduction to early Church history presents the advance of God’s people through the years 29 to 500 A.D. Emphasizing people rather than policies or polemics, The First Advance shows Christians in the first five centuries persevering under persecution and carrying their faith east and south into Asia and Africa as well as westward into Europe. The First Advance includes maps, charts,...

At the time of Christ, Jews living outside Palestine numbered several times as many as those living in Palestine. The Greek geographer Strabo (AD 7) wrote: “Jews have gone into every city, and it is hard to find a place on earth which has not admitted them, and come under their control.” (2) The suggestion that Jews had “control” is an exaggeration. The Jews had no political power, but they were capable businessmen, with a high
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