They spoke a language which left no doubt as to the future of unrepentant sinners. 气度沉稳，言之凿凿。讲到拒不悔改的人在地狱的悲惨情形， The Teutons were deeply impressed. 让条顿人不由自主感到深深的触动。 T...
The Christian communities however, refused to practice any sort of tolerance. 但基督教社团 却拒绝任何宽容与妥协。 They publicly declared that their God, and their God alone, was the true ruler of Heaven and Earth, and that all other...
After a while they began to meet the men and women who preached the words of Jesus. 又过了不久，他们开始与宣传基督福音的男男女女们有了私下的接触， They found them very different from the average Roman priests. 发现他们...
When the first disciples of Jesus reached Rome and began to preach their new doctrine of a universal brotherhood of man, nobody objected. 当第一批基督耶稣的信徒们抵达罗马，开始宣讲他们爱人如己，人人都是兄弟的新信仰...
Chapter 27 Rise of the church 第二十七章 教会之兴 How Rome became the center of the Christian world 罗马如何成为基督教世界的中心新教徒到来 The average intelligent Roman who lived under the Empire had taken very little inte...
The old bridges were gone and commerce had come to a standstill. 帝国的大道因年旧失修而塌陷，桥梁断绝，早已不堪使用。 Civilisation-the product of thousands of years of patient labor on the part of Egyptians and Babylonians a...
In the year 402 the Emperor fled to Ravenna, which was a sea-port and strongly fortified, 公元402年，西罗马皇帝逃往拉维纳。 and there, in the year 475, Odoacer, commander of a regiment of the German mercenaries, 这里是一座海港，城...
This made Rome very uncomfortable as an Imperial residence. 这样的事情常常发生，使得作为帝国首都的罗马变成了一个令人不快的居所。 Constantine(who ruled from 323 to 337) looked for a new capital. 康士坦丁皇帝（公...
But they were not willing to engage in warfare for the benefit of an ambitious emperor who aspired to glory by way of a foreign campaign in the land of the Parthians or the Numidians or the Scots. 但他们不愿为罗马帝国打仗，因为那不过是...
But the underlying causes of the decay of the State, of which I have told you in a former chapter, had not been removed and reform therefore was impossible. 不过正如我在上一章讲过的，罗马帝国的根基已经锈蚀，造成它衰败的深...
