Confirming that early Christians conducted themselves as “aliens and temporary residents ” in the Roman world, historian Kenneth Scott Latourette wrote:“ It is one of the commonplaces of history that in its first three centuries Christianity met persistent and often severe persecution...
٨ كَيْفَ وَصَفَ أَحَدُ ٱلْمُؤَرِّخِينَ عَلَاقَةَ ٱلْمَسِيحِيِّينَ ٱلْأَوَائِلِ بِٱلْعَالَمِ ؟‏