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 and were become Christians in Jerusalem, did these suffer in the destruction of Jerusalem?

A. There were many that had embraced the doctrine of the apostles and believed in Christ, in and about Jerusalem; but Lactantius relates: That, after they had put to death the two James's and banished both Peter and Paul and others, Christ, who has always a care over his own, appeared to Peter and Paul at Rome, before their martyrdom, and declared that, within three or four years after their death, he would take revenge on the Jews by the utter destruction of Jerusalem, and that generation which, he says, they revealed to the Christians in Judea, whereupon, Eusebius saith, they departed from Jerusalem, not long before the siege began to build a town called Pilla, beyond Jordan, to which Jesus had directed them, it being under the government of Agrippa, who being in amity with the Romans, would be safe.

Q. Who was the first Emperor that embraced the Christian faith, and proclaimed liberty unto them?

A. Constantine the Great was the first that established the Christian religion: he died peaceably in his bed, though for 300 years before few or none escaped divine justice.

Q. What was the first heathen country that embraced the Christian religion?

A of all other nations in the world, none earlier embraced the Christian religion with more readiness than the Egyptians, demolishing their idolatrous images before any other heathen nation, and giving example to other countries to do the same, so they were the first who, after the coming of Christ, returned to the worship of the true God.

Q. Do you mind the apology that Tertullian