"The virtue of the primitive Christians, like that of the first Romans, was very frequently guarded by poverty and ignorance."
— Christianity

January 1, 1970

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Edward Gibbon (1788), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1, Chap. 15, on the progress of the Christian religion, and the sentiments, manners, numbers, and condition of the primitive Christians .