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Identifier: earlydaysofchrist00gran (find matches)
Title: The early days of Christianity
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Grant, Frederick C. (Frederick Clifton), 1891-1974
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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their religion generally under-stood. Such were some of the cities in the province ofAsia. Paul had spent three years at Ephesus, from 52to 55, and from this headquarters his assistants hadgone out to establish the church in nearby cities. Per-haps some of the country towns had been evangelizedby persons who had gone up to Ephesus, heard Pauland been won to Christ, and then returned to spreadthe message and share the new life in Christ with theirold neighbors and friends. Such a man, perhaps, wasPhilemon of Colossae. It was in these small, new, butgrowing churches of western Asia Minor that the per-secution now raged. There is a book in the New Testament, called theApocalypse, or Revelation, oj John, which containssome letters addressed about this time to Christians inthe chief cities of this region; and there are also otherreferences in the volume to the persecution under Nero.The form in which we have the book to-day is later indate, for it was probably edited, with the addition of
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a. <w IhiJ. WKW YORKiUBLIC LIBRARY A«TO«, LRNOX ilLUEN FOUNDATIONS CHRISTIANITY IN THE DAYS OF NERO 227 much new material, toward the end of the reign ofDomitian (81-96) when still another persecution hadbroken out. But these older sections of the book areuseful as showing us what the Christians felt andthought when they found themselves threatened withdeath on account of their faith. A vision of the Son of Man.—The original workwas written by a Christian called John—some say theapostle John. The author had been banished to therocky, desolate island of Patmos, one of the Cyclades,forty miles southwest of the harbor of Miletus. Thereon a Lords day (the Christian Sunday, not the JewishSabbath) he was in the Spirit and saw a wondrousvision which he was commanded to write in a bookand send it to the seven churches of Asia—at Ephesus,Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, andLaodicea. The account of his vision is as follows: And I turned to see the voice which spake w

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