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    cite the notice of government , and to become the object of an imperial persecution : and by his singular conjecture , that in the Epistle of Paul to the Christian Church in the imperial city , there are allusions to the coiidlict of a

    wicked Jew , whose atrocities provoked the Irfdignation of Sejanus , the prime minister of Tiberius . Commentators , on examining their works , it is found , assign the Eplistle to the Romans to the year

    58 , a lapse of nearly thirty years from the time when the crimes , to which Theologits supposes th # writer alluded , were cornmittedj and from the death of Sejanus : a distance which , on the principle

    of the association of ideas , much lessens the probability of such a reference existing in the mirid of the Apostle , or being discerned and felt by his readers ; as the impressions made by such remote events must have then becoma

    very faint , if they were' not obliterated . But , though Expositors have , generally , agreed as to the data of the Epjstle to the Romans , I have not met with satisfaction , in

    turning them over , as to the tim « when the first Christian Church was raised in Rome , and the num * bers of which it consisted : points of great importance to the truth and certainty of Theo logos ' assertion . In this hesitation the

    learned Lord Haileb * u Disquisitions concerning the Antiquities of the Christian Churcb , " printed at Glasgow , in 1783 , I 2 mo . was opened - and the eye fixed on the

    second chapter , ** Of the time at which the Christian Religion became publicly known at Rome . " This inquiry was directly to th point .

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    * The tyrant naturally availed himself of these circumstances , as affording a fair opportunity for indulging 'insecurity a malice ,

    cruelty and revenge , equalled only by Antiocbus . The city he set on fire in various quarters , and pointed to the Christians as the > perpetrators of this horrid deed . The accusation he knew

    would appear plausible , as their sentiments respecting the approaching conflagration , were

    notorious . And what is very remarkable , we are assured on" the Authority of Dion Cassius ^ that on this occasion , Nero sung one of the oracles to which Lactantius

    alludfes / in the fofregoing passage , thus holding out tp the enraged populace , that burning the Ncity was an act by which the Christians endeavoured to fulfil their own predictions * T&EOLOGUS

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    Introduction of Christianity at Rome * . Sir , Jan . Sy 1811 . The Controversy , on which your ingenious and learned

    correspondents , TuEoi . oGirs and Caifo , have indulged their vein of humour and irony , led me to reflect , when \/ iras the Epistle to the Romans written ^ And what data are there to ascertain the

    date of forming the first Christian Chtirch Jit Rome , and the number of the Christians in that city , at any time , within the period of the completion of the canon of the Kew Testament i These questions were , naturally , I conceive ,

    ¦ uggested by the singular assertion of T&eologus , that within a year or two after the resurrection , of Jesus converts to Christianity were * o numerous at Rome , as to W-

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    Introduction of Christianity at Rome . 3 *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/35/