This was, in the end, the real secret to Christianity’s success in the late Roman and Greek world. It supplied, or claimed to supply, the answers to all the questions Plato, Aristotle, and their disciples had been asking for nearly five hundred years. By accepting the person of Jesus as the son of God and savior, by absorbing His words and life lessons, man’s soul would finally grasp the timeless wisdom that every previous philosopher had said was the key to happiness. Through Christianity, what Socrates had called “the realm of the pure and everlasting and immortal and changeless” was
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