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When Emperor Julian
("the Apostate") wanted to revive pagan religion in the mid-300s,
he gave a most helpful
insight into how the
church spread.
This opponent of the
faith said that Christianity
"has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers and through their care of the burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not a single Jew who is a beggar and that the [Christians] care not only for their own poor but for ours as well; while those who belong to us look in vain for the help we should render them."
When a devastating plague swept across the ancient world in the third century, Christians were the only ones who cared for the sick, which they did at the risk of contracting the plague themselves.
Meanwhile, pagans were throwing infected members of their own families into the streets even before they died, in order to protect themselves from the disease.
insight into how the
church spread.
This opponent of the
faith said that Christianity
"has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers and through their care of the burial of the dead. It is a scandal that there is not a single Jew who is a beggar and that the [Christians] care not only for their own poor but for ours as well; while those who belong to us look in vain for the help we should render them."
When a devastating plague swept across the ancient world in the third century, Christians were the only ones who cared for the sick, which they did at the risk of contracting the plague themselves.
Meanwhile, pagans were throwing infected members of their own families into the streets even before they died, in order to protect themselves from the disease.
