CHAPTER I: THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

WORSHIP AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

§ I. Christian Worship during this period--Spirituality of the New Worship: no Priesthood; no Temples; no Holy Days--Sunday not the Sabbath--Acts of Worship--Teaching--Old Testament still the Holy Book--Faithfulness in Teaching required Prayer--Thanksgiving--Song--Sacraments--Baptism linked to Faith; has no connection with Circumcision; not administered to Children--The Communion: Mode of celebration--Ecclesiastical Discipline--Apostolic Age knew no other Sacraments than Baptism and Lord's Supper--Anointing with Oil--Burial of the Dead 361

§ II. Christian Life--Primitive Christianity cannot act directly in all the domains which it is to subdue in course of time--No Opposition between Church and State--The two Institutions unfit to be Separated--No Opposition between Christianity and Art--Creation of a Ideal by the Gospel--Characteristics of Individual Piety --Manual Labor Ennobled--Asceticism--Christian Family --Christianity and Slavery--Latter is morally Abolished--Charity Born upon Earth with Christianity--Relation of Christians to the World--Power of the Holiness of the First Christians 381

First Century--Book Third.

PERIOD OF ST. JOHN, OR CLOSE OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE.

THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

§ I. Destruction of the Holy City--Roman Tyranny in Judæa --First Revolt--Commencement of the Siege--Forebodings of the Divine Chastisement--The Three Factions--Growing Horror of the Siege --Taking of the City--Burning of the Temple 399

§ II. Consequences to the Church of the Destruction of the Temple--Enlargement of Prophetic Views--Need of a Fixed Organization--No Second Council at Jerusalem--The Synagogue formally Excommunicates the Church--Origin of Ebionitism 406