Chiust was born under Augustus, crucified under Tiberius. Hence some of the apologists made it one of their pleas for toleration that the Church was coeval with the Empire. They meant that the coincidence of time was designed by God, that these two great institutions were intended to help one another, and ought not to be hostile.There was substantial truth in this opinion. There can be no doubt that the establishment of the Empire greatly assisted the diffusion of the now religion.Let us consider first its extent. The Roman Empire covered the whole basin of the Mediterranean Sea, which was the great mixing-bowl of ideas, the cradle of modern civilization. It included not only the whole of the shores of the great sea, but England, Spain. France, all Europe as far northwards as the Rhine and Danube, Asia as far eastwards as Armenia and the Euphrates, Egypt, and a broad strip of North Africa. It covered nearly all the states and countries of modern Europe except Scotland, Ireland,...

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