Early Christians in Europe adopted many of the practices of the older, pagan religions.

欧洲早期的基督教徒承袭了更古老的一些异教的许多习俗。

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We'll look at different ways that early Christians dealt with the fact that this movement seemed to come out of Judaism.

我们会研究早期基督教,如何掩饰该运动源于犹太教。

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So already by the time 2 Peter was written, which was much later than the letters of Paul, Paul's letters have come to be regarded by at least some early Christians as scripture themselves.

所以到写彼得后书时，比它更早出现的保罗书信，已经被一些早期基督教徒,认为是圣典了。

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And particularly as probable as we were mentioning, that early Christians believed in something like the body theory of personal identity and believed in bodily resurrection.

尤其是我们刚刚,提到的那种可能,早期的基督教徒相信,人格同一性的肉体论,相信肉体复活。

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He compares communists both to fascists, with whom he sees ideological differences but practical similarities, and to early Christians.

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Assad, in a fiery speech when welcoming the Pope, had compared the suffering of Palestinians today with Jewish attacks on early Christians.

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Among early Christians, the millennialists were those, frowned on by Jerome and Augustine, who wanted to keep alive the excitement of a prophetic creed in the face of an institutionalising state religion.

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