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Therefore Tertullian tells us that anciently among the Heathen the professors of Christianity were called not Christiani, but Chrestiani, from a word signifying sweetness and meekness and benignity of disposition. I cannot but conceive that this was the reason why the ancients, many of them, conversed even with the heathen themselves. |
Therefore Tertullian tells us that anciently among the Heathen the professors of Christianity were called not Christians, but Christian, from a word signifying sweetness and meekness and benignity of disposition. I cannot but conceive that this was the reason why the ancients, many of them, conversed even with the heathen themselves. |
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