mar 1, 170 - Lucian of Samostata
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165-175 CELucian of Samostata provides an assessment of Christians from the standpoint of an educated, secular satirist. He confirms their continued activity in Palestine, their care for imprisoned adherents, notions of communal property, a willingness to hand themselves over to authorities, and food restrictions (likely meaning meat sacrificed to idols). He claims that Christians are frequently the victims of grift and taken in by men of intellectual ability (like his protagonist, the vain Peregrinus, who may have had some status among them in Palestine). In another work, Lucian implies that Christians were among a few classes of citizen resistant to other contemporary cults of personality, and that the cult of Glycon took similar steps as early Christianity in seeking to promulgate itself.
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mar 1, 170
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~ 1856 years ago