“The identification of the ruling Roman authorities as ‘a blaspheming beast’ is not exactly a complimentary one, and yet for the Christians it was a very obvious one to make. When the Christians cultivated their open liturgical honor for the emperor, they were not doing so with their eyes closed. We might even say that it was the Christians who first developed the idea of loyal opposition” (5 Cities, p. 101).
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