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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Apr 18, 2022 14:45:15 GMT -6
Period One
FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE GNOSTIC CRISIS
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Apr 18, 2022 15:13:49 GMT -6
Chapter 1
THE BIRTH of Christ saw the lands which surrounded the Mediterranean in the possession of Rome. To a degree never before equalled, and unapproached in modern times, these vast territories, which embraced all that common men knew of civilized life, were under the sway of a single type of culture. The civilizations of India or of China did not come within the vision of the ordinary inhabitant of the Roman Empire. Outside
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