Sentences with phrase «end of the fourth century»

By the end of the fourth century the educated bureaucratic class realized that the future lay with Christianity and that the best way to preserve what was good and true in Roman culture was to embrace the new religion.
Only at the end of the fourth century do we see anything like a face of Christ presented alone, without background details or other figures in a narrative composition.
By the end of the fourth century the western sources are more or less unanimous that Thomas worked in India.
The Addai traditions were as persistent in the early church of Mesopotamia as the Thomas traditions were in India By the end of the fourth century Addai was commonly accepted by Syrian writers both Eastern and Western as the founder of their church.
The observance of time as a means of recovering events in the life of Christ was well developed by the end of the fourth century.
At the end of the fourth century, with many errant translations of the Greek Scriptures into Latin floating around, Pope Damascus charged Jerome with producing a new authoritative Latin translations of the Bible for the Western Church.
By the end of the fourth century, Rome was a «Christian Empire,» and many Christians stared thinking in the same way those old Pharisees did.
(b) No manuscript before the end of the fourth century contains it; no Church Father, in the same period, refers to it.
In Sidon was found a sarcophagus, from the end of the fourth century BCE, on which is painted Alexander the Great and the King of Sidon hunting a lion with the help of a hunting dog, similar in build to the dogs in Ashkelon and similar in appearance to the Canaan Dog.
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