Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

However incompatible the spirit of Jesus and armed force may be, and however unpleasant it may be to acknowledge the fact, as a matter of plain history the latter has often made it possible for the former to survive.