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Would The Early Christians Have Closed Their Churches?

Pliny, the Roman historian and shrewd observer of events, once wrote to his friend the Emperor Trajan: “These Christians are a strange bunch. They make their God and then they eat Him.” This is one of the earliest and most important independent testimonies to the unhesitating belief of the early Church in the doctrine of transubstantiation. If you try Googling it, it is very likely that the only reference to it that you will find is in an article by … Read More