Peter In Rome? - Chapter V - David J Albert - June 1973

David J Albert

In tracing the history of the Church and its writers, one can hardly move from the first century and the Apostolic era into the earliest records of the second century without comment. It was no less an historian than Gibbon who was forced to write, "The scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the Church." [Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (New York: The Modern Library, n. ed., Vol. I, p. 382.] And Hurlbut complains: - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library