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2 c. Gels, viii. 69 (i. p. 794, Delarue).
8 On the other hand, Blunt, First Th/ree Centuries, p. 209 seq., quotes other passages from Origen, in which, like Justin and Tertullian, he speaks of the wide diflFusion and great numbers of the Christians. These passages must be taken for what they are worth ; but they cannot seriously invalidate the testimony of an incidental notice such as I have quoted. Origen's words (c. Cels.
L 27), it is right to add, are not nearly so strong in the original as ...they appear in Mr. Robertson's quotation (i. p. 152).
Digitized by VjOOQ IC 76 COMPAJRATIVE PROGKESS OF Though Origen's statement is general, he more especially represents the flourishing Church of Alexandria. Not very different is the impression derived from a notice relating to Asia Minor.
Gregory Thaumaturgus, a pupil of Origen, was appointed to the see of Neocsesarea, the most im- portant town, if not the metropolis, of Pontus, about the year 240. After working on for about a quarter of a century with marvellous success, he was able to express his thankfulness at the close of his life that he only left seventeen heathens in the town and neighbourhood, though when he went there he had found only as many Christians.^ We are not perhaps required to take his statement literally, but after all reasonable deductions it is plain that the Christians then formed only a minute and inappreci- able fraction of the population in one of the largest towns in Asia Minor — so minute, perhaps, that they would pass unnoticed in the mass of their heathen fellow-citizens.^ ^ Greg.
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2 c. Gels, viii. 69 (i. p. 794, Delarue).
8 On the other hand, Blunt, First Th/ree Centuries, p. 209 seq., quotes other passages from Origen, in which, like Justin and Tertullian, he speaks of the wide diflFusion and great numbers of the Christians. These passages must be taken for what they are worth ; but they cannot seriously invalidate the testimony of an incidental notice such as I have quoted. Origen's words (c. Cels.
L 27), it is right to add, are not nearly so strong in the original as ...they appear in Mr. Robertson's quotation (i. p. 152).
Digitized by VjOOQ IC 76 COMPAJRATIVE PROGKESS OF Though Origen's statement is general, he more especially represents the flourishing Church of Alexandria. Not very different is the impression derived from a notice relating to Asia Minor.
Gregory Thaumaturgus, a pupil of Origen, was appointed to the see of Neocsesarea, the most im- portant town, if not the metropolis, of Pontus, about the year 240. After working on for about a quarter of a century with marvellous success, he was able to express his thankfulness at the close of his life that he only left seventeen heathens in the town and neighbourhood, though when he went there he had found only as many Christians.^ We are not perhaps required to take his statement literally, but after all reasonable deductions it is plain that the Christians then formed only a minute and inappreci- able fraction of the population in one of the largest towns in Asia Minor — so minute, perhaps, that they would pass unnoticed in the mass of their heathen fellow-citizens.^ ^ Greg.
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