How Rome Described Christian Worship in 112 AD
A pagan governor once tried to expose Christianity—and instead recorded one of the earliest accounts of its worship. 🏛️
In 112 AD, Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trajan after interrogating Christians, revealing what their secret gatherings were really like—and what that tells us about how the earliest believers worshipped.
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📜 Video Chapters
0:00 – Introduction
0:19 - Who are Pliny and Trajan?
1:04 - Pliny’s Description of Worship
3:18 - The Lesson for Us
If you'd like to read the whole document (short read) you can do so here: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/pliny.html This letter and all his others are also in the Pliny the Younger Complete letters book published by Oxford. https://geni.us/plinycomplete (affiliate)
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