Confirming that early Christians conducted themselves as “aliens and temporary residents ” in the Roman world, historian Kenneth Scott Latourette wrote:“ It is one of the commonplaces of history that in its first three centuries Christianity met persistent and often severe persecution...
एक इतिहासकार केनथ स्कॉट लाटूरेट ने पुख्ता किया कि रोमी साम्राज्य में मसीही, “परदेसी और प्रवासी ” के तौर पर ही जीते थे ।