Persecution in the Early Church: A Chapter in the History of Renunciation (Biblia.com)

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This volume takes into account the legal, historical, ecclesiastical, and experiential aspects of the early persecutions of Christians. The text emphasizes “those aspects of the inner life of the church which led to persecution.”

HITHERTO in our study of Persecution we have dealt with the relations of the Church and the Empire in their broadest outlines. We have seen that persecution was no accident, but the necessary resultant of certain main principles in Christianity itself, which brought the new faith into conflict with the outer world. We have also noted that the state of conflict was continuous, though persecution itself was intermittent. The fires of popular hatred were ever smouldering, liable at any moment to break

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