Chapter, Paragraph

 1  1,2 |      seems to have passed before Christians produced written gospels,
 2  1,3 |      Greek. Many of the earliest Christians were bilingual; but they
 3  2,2 |       revolt broke out among the Christians at Corinth against the officers
 4  2,2 |         are Roman letters to the Christians of the East, I Clement to
 5  2,5 |        also addressed one to the Christians of Rome, preparing them
 6  2,5 |       remedy (Philadelphians 7). Christians must be in harmony with
 7  2,6 |   requested them to write to the Christians of his diocese. They had
 8  2,8 |     Letter of Barnabas.~The view Christians were to take of the Jewish
 9  2,8 |    century and a half. What were Christians to think of the Jewish Law?
10  2,10|       Martyrdom of Justin.~Early Christians were constantly liable to
11  2,10|        of Justin and seven other Christians by the prefect. The prefect
12  2,10|        they insist that they are Christians, he threatens Justin and
13  2,10|         heavenly reward. All the Christians refuse to offer sacrifice
14  2,10|        therefore beheaded; other Christians later obtain their bodies
15  2,11|     celebrated. Polycarp and the Christians of Asia observed it on the
16  2,11|   greatly respected and loved by Christians everywhere, and an account
17  2,11|     Christian history in keeping Christians steadfast in persecutions,
18  2,12|       Churches.~ The position of Christians in the ancient world was
19  2,12|          rabble of a city by the Christians there might cause an outbreak
20  2,12|      torture, confessed that the Christians were guilty of the crimes
21  3   |        writing was revived among Christians in the second century when
22  3   |        reader, even of the books Christians prized most; but he would
23  3   |         others did so after him. Christians were already introducing
24  3   |          be right in saying that Christians were already at work upon
25  3   |       observed. Although learned Christians often mentioned them, their
26  4,2 |          called the attention of Christians to the possibility of producing
27  4,3 |     circulated among the gentile Christians of Egypt and the other among
28  4,4 |         of its use by the Jewish Christians of Egypt, but the name may
29  4,4 |        in use among the Nazarene Christians in Beroea in Syria, and
30  4,4 |    Jerusalem, the hero of Jewish Christians and of some Gnostic groups.
31  4,4 |   Nazaraeans,” or Gnostic Jewish Christians, used a gospel resembling
32  4,5 |       gospels described led many Christians early in the second century
33  4,9 |       successors of those Jewish Christians of Palestine, and especially
34  4,9 |        the Greek-speaking Jewish Christians of that sect. It is probable
35  5,2 |        of women in religion some Christians in Asia felt that women
36  7   |    defense of the new religion.~ Christians were mostly persons of little
37  7,1 |         the changes of the moon. Christians worshiped God in a new way
38  7,2 |         of Quadratus.~ The early Christians were indeed in a most difficult
39  7,2 |          lawfully practiced. But Christians practiced an unlicensed
40  7,2 |         natural that intelligent Christians should undertake to repel
41  7,3 |        although he speaks of the Christians as well as of the other
42  7,3 |        Aristides' account of the Christians; indeed, he probably refers
43  7,3 |       the emperor to examine the Christians' books (16:3, 5). Aristides
44  7,3 |        have seen. He sees in the Christians a new race, as the author
45  7,3 | referring to the writings of the Christians as his sources suggests
46  7,4 |       city in Perea in which the Christians of Jerusalem were warned
47  8,1 |         charges made against the Christians and to satisfy himself that
48  8,1 |       religious practices of the Christians are pure, pious, and simple.
49  8,1 |          thinks favorable to the Christians.~ Justin was the most voluminous
50  8,1 | customary with Jews, Greeks, and Christians in antiquity. In the end,
51  8,1 |       with that of several other Christians, before the Roman prefect
52  8,2 |        learn the religion of the Christians.” The ten or twelve short
53  8,2 |        of Christ and the work of Christians in the world; their relation
54  8,3 |      whom he identifies Jews and Christians. He points out the disagreement
55  8,3 | scripture of the Syriac-speaking Christians, and was not displaced from
56  9,2 |           Athenagoras holds that Christians should be entitled to the
57  9,2 |         were brought against the Christians; shows that their worship
58  9,2 |           or Appeal on Behalf of Christians, perhaps at Alexandria,
59  9,2 |          them an apology for the Christians. But the Apology-the Greek
60  9,3 |        their charges against the Christians, and gives evidence for
61  9,3 |        Jewish religion, of which Christians felt they were the true
62 10,2 |        of Hermas. With Irenaeus, Christians began to call these books “
63 11,1 |      first school established by Christians of which we have any knowledge
64 12,7 |   differences that existed among Christians about what books should
65 12,7 |    acknowledged books, which all Christians accepted as scripture, and
66 13,7 |    converts, crafts forbidden to Christians, of baptism, confirmation,
67 13,15|        fifteen books against the Christians appeared about 270) and
68 14,3 |     outbreak against the African Christians. Their habit of holding
69 14,3 |      against the laws condemning Christians simply as such and without
70 14,3 |      cannibalism and admits that Christians do not worship the old gods
71 14,3 |        down by you; the blood of Christians is seed”-the most famous
72 14,3 |          precedents favorable to Christians, not to proceed against
73 14,6 | naturally directed North African Christians to Rome, the only church
74 14,9 |         popular case against the Christians: Christians are too ignorant
75 14,9 |          against the Christians: Christians are too ignorant to know
76 14,9 |        gods; it is wrong for the Christians to revile them. They themselves
77 14,9 |       natural endowment, and the Christians' possession of them 1s not
78 14,9 |        him, as he deserves. What Christians now suffer is not a punishment
79 14,10|     great stress and pe, for the Christians of Carthage and of great
80 14,10|    Popular animosity against the Christians was roused again by the
81 14,10|           the various classes of Christians were threatened with varying
82 14,12|   calamities of the times to the Christians' failure to worship the
83 14,12|          death seems to overtake Christians and pagans alike, it means
84 14,16|        had felt before him, that Christians should he shown what the
85 14,17|       not be displeased with the Christians, for Christianity teaches
86 14,17|        iii meets the charge that Christians do not worship the national
87 14,19|           On justice,” which the Christians seek to bring back to the
88 14,20|       these emperors against the Christians and others Lactantius recites
89 16   |    barbarians, Greeks, Jews, and Christians.~  [38] E.g. the Dialogue