CONTENTS. PAGE Church-Ecclesia. Sources of Ecclesiastical History...... Political state of the World at Christ's birth... Religious state of the World at Christ's birth. Herod the Great. Political state of Judea at Christ's birth. Religious State of Circumstances favourable to the Apostles..... Fictitious Causes of the progress of Christianity. Appointment Discipline in the Primitive Church.. The Rite of Baptism. Stephen, the first Christian Martyr. First dispersion of the Believers... Philip the Deacon-Simon Magus .......... Caligula, Fourth Emperor of Rome. The Statue of Caligula.. The first Call of the Gentiles. Claudius, fifth Emperor of Rome. .................. Fates of the Apostles. The Apostolic Fathers State of the Church at the end of the first century. Trajan, fourteenth Emperor of Rome. Pliny's Letter and Tra- Edict of Antoninus Pius. The Paschal Controversy. ... 88 89 |