Part 86 (1/2)

CHAPTER IV

[1] The Fars_ (R 14), illustrates very well the Gods and sacrifices for one phase of Roman life Petronius, in his Satires, says, ”Our country is so full of divinities that it is much easier to find a God than a ion were to foretell the future, to explain the universe, to avert calamity, and to obtain the assistance of the Gods They contained no instruous to our institution of preaching, or to the moral preparation for the reception of the sacra of the Bible, or to religious education, or to united prayer for spiritual benefits To make men virtuous was no more the function of the priest than of the physician” (Lecky, W E H, _History of European Morals_, chap, iv)

[3] Seneca (4-65 AD), the tutor of the Emperor Nero, and the Greek freedman Epictetus (d 100 AD) both expounded Stoicishts_ of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180 AD) represents one of the finest expositions of the application of this philosophy to the probleood statement of the ancient Hebrew ideal of womanhood

[5] This collective term is applied to the first five books of the Old Testament, and includes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy These five books foral s and experiences and practices of the people

[6] Chapter 1 of the Gospel according to Saint Matthew gives, in detail (1-16), the genealogy of Jesus, concluding with the following verse:

”17 So all the generations froenerations; and froenerations; and froenerations”

[7] To many of these churches he wrote a series of epistles These constitute a little_Book of Readings_ (or Romans, I, 1-17) for the introductory part of Paul's Epistle to the Romans

[8] ”Its missionaries were Jews, a turbulent race, not to be assian Rome as by the mediaeval Christians Wherever it attracted any notice, therefore, it seeone mad upon some obscure point of the national superstition--an outcast sect of an outcast race” (Adaes_, p 39)

[9] ”Starting fronificant province, fronorant work self-control and renunciation before unheard of, certain to arouse in tihly cultivated and critical society which it attacked, the odds against it were treine how, in the face of an Asia Minor, a Greece, an Italy the Roman split up into a hundred sypt, in possession of their old national institutions, the apostles could have succeeded, or even how their project could have been started The unity of the Eious proselytisrand scale if it was to place itself above the nationalities” (Renan, E, _Hibbert Lectures, 1880; Influence of Rome on the Christian Church_)

[11] In Acts xxv, 1-12, it is recorded that the Apostle Paul, accused by the Jews and virtually on trial for his life before the provincial governor Festus, fell back on his Roman citizenshi+p and successfully ”appealed to Caesar” (See footnote 3, page 57)

[12] ”The reater than dried-up seas and cloven rocks, greater than the dead rising again to life, hen the Augustus on his throne, Pontiff of the Gods of Rome, himself a God to the subjects of Rome, bent himself to become the worshi+per of a crucified provincial of his Empire” (Freeman, E A, _Periods of European History_, p 67)

[13] In 319 and 326 the clergy were exempted from all public burdens, and only the poor were to be ady were exempted ”from public burdens and froy were exempted from personal taxes (See R 38)

[14] Froh the Greek Catholic Church, to Greece, parts of the Balkans, and Russia; through the Roman Catholic Church to all western Europe and the two A from the Roman Catholic by secession, and the Moha uncivilized tribes and in Asia do we find any great nuious conceptions

[15] Paul to the Romans (x, 9) stated the fundamentals of belief as follows: ”If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved”

[16] M Boissier _La Fin du Paganisme_, vol 1, p 200

[17] _Justin Martyr_ (105?-167), a former Greek teacher and philosopher, continued to follow his profession, wear his Greek philosopher's garb, and held that the teachings of Christianity were already contained in Greek philosophy, and that Plato and Socrates were Christians before the co of the Christian faith

_Clement_ (c 160-c 215), the successor of Pantaeus as head of the catechetical school at Alexandria, held to the harmony of the Gospels with philosophy, and that ”Plato was Moses Atticized”

_Origen_ (c 185-c 254), a pupil and successor of Clement, and the most learned of all the early Christian Fathers, labored to har and philosophy, and did mas of the early Church

_Saint Basil_ (331-379) tried to allay the rising prejudice against pagan learning, and to show the helpfulness to the Christian life of the Greek literature and philosophy

_Gregory of nazianzus_ (c 330-c 390) was filled with indignation and protested loudly at the closing of the pagan schools to Christians by the edict of the Emperor Julian, in 362

[18] _Tertullian_ (c 150-230) had been well educated in Greek literature and philosophy, and had attained distinction as a lawyer