material benefits were never valued in the apostolic age for their own sake, they were never regarded as substitutes for spiritual things. That lesson needs to be learned. Social betterment, though important, is insufficient; it must always be supplemented by God’s unspeakable gift,
J Gresham Machen, New Testament, ed, John Cook, pp 345, 346
10 ways the early Christians were tortured
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In the beginning, the emperor threatened them with bonds and imprisonment.
But a while later, when he began to work the matter ...
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