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Excerpt from The Beginnings of the Christian Church: Lectures Delivered in the Chapter-Room of Winchester Cathedral
On the other hand, we are so fully conscious of the marked difference of character between the apostolic and post-apostolic writings, that we find it difficult to remember, even with St. Clement's help, that the apostolic age must have passed insensibly into the post-apostolic. All Christians before St. John's death, or at least before St. Paul's, seem to us to live in the atmosphere of the Acts of the Apostles; while all Christians after those events seem to live in that of a chronic Diocletian persecution.
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