“Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.” WellsChristianTogetherLanguageKnownTeachingAuthorityDevilMeetingsBoundsOfficialsDemonRemarkableServingAgnosticWell KnownFoeQuarrelsInterventionDisagreementAntagonism Author:Ramsay MacMullen
