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Our Lord calls the commandment of love which He gave to His disciples a new commandment (john xiii. And such indeed it was, for the world before Christ came was a world without love. Lactantius, writing at the time when, after a struggle which had lasted for cen turies, Christianity had at length obtained the upper hand, lays great emphasis upon this difference between the Christian and the heathen world, saying Compas sion and humanity are virtues peculiar to the righteous and to the worshippers of God. Philosophy teaches us nothing of them.1 And should this witness, as coming from one who was himself a Christian, appear suspicious, there is still quite trustworthy evidence in the astonishment with which the heathen regarded the charitableness of the Christians, which seemed so strange to them; and a still stronger witness may be seen in the endeavour of the Emperor Julian to introduce into heathendom this new thing, which he could not but recognise as a peculiarity of Christianity.
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Our Lord calls the commandment of love which He gave to His disciples a new commandment (john xiii. And such indeed it was, for the world before Christ came was a world without love. Lactantius, writing at the time when, after a struggle which had lasted for cen turies, Christianity had at length obtained the upper hand, lays great emphasis upon this difference between the Christian and the heathen world, saying Compas sion and humanity are virtues peculiar to the righteous and to the worshippers of God. Philosophy teaches us nothing of them.1 And should this witness, as coming from one who was himself a Christian, appear suspicious, there is still quite trustworthy evidence in the astonishment with which the heathen regarded the charitableness of the Christians, which seemed so strange to them; and a still stronger witness may be seen in the endeavour of the Emperor Julian to introduce into heathendom this new thing, which he could not but recognise as a peculiarity of Christianity.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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