They Love One Another

SOURCE: The Apology of Aristides the Philosopher 

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KEYWORDS: Love, Faith, works, witness, acts, mercy, compassion, mission

In AD 125, a Greek philosopher named Aristides attempted to explain Christianity to Roman Emperor Hadrian. Here's how he described these early Christians...

"[T]hey love one another, and from widows they do not turn away their esteem; and they deliver the orphan from him who treats him harshly. And he, who has, gives to him who has not, without boasting. And when they see a stranger, they take him into their homes and rejoice over him as a very brother; for they do not call them brethren after the flesh, but brethren after the spirit and in God."