4. State what you can of the rise and course of the anti-Christian church. 5. What of the rise of old distinctions? 6. What old organizations were revived in the fourth century? 7. What attempt was made to reorganize the church? 8. Where were the Nephites destroyed? 9. What followed the destruction of the Nephites? Footnotes 1. These statements are sustained in the following scriptures. Matt. x:16-40; Luke vi:22-26; John xv:18-22. 2. Acts vii: 55-60. 3. Acts xii: 1, 2. 4. Eusebius Bk. II, ch. xxiii. 5. Acts xii. 6. Mosheim Part I, ch. v. 7. Matt. xxvii: 22-25. 8. Josephus' Wars of the Jews, Bk. vi, ch. ix. 9. Luke xxi: 5-9, 20-24. 10. Eusebius Bk. III, ch. v. The Saints were also warned to flee from Jerusalem by Messiah himself when they should see armies begin to encompass it.--See Luke xxi: 20-24. 11. Decline and Fall Vol. I, ch. 1. 12. Annals lib. xv, ch. 44. 13. Decline and Fall I, ch. xvi. See also Guizot's note on same page. 14. This is according to the testimony of Eusebius, quoting Hagesippus and Tertullian. (Eusebius Book III, ch. xx). But other authorities claim that Domitian's edicts against the Christians were not revoked until after his death. 15. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. I. Second Cent. ch. ii. 16. Decline and Fall, vol. I, ch. xvi. 17. Eusebius Eccle. Hist. Bk. v, ch. i and ii. 18. Decline and Fall, vol. I, ch. xvi. 19. Mosheim's Eccl. His. vol. I, cent. iii, ch. ii. 20. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. vol. I, cent. iv, ch. i. 21. Quoted by Murdock in Mosheim.--See note--Mosheim Eccl. Hist. vol. I, p. 210. 22. Revelation ch. xiii: 1-7. 23. According to Eusebius, however, Helena was converted to Christianity by her son.--De Veta Constantine I, iii, ch: 47. 24. Constantine had caused to be put to death, through jealousy and on what, to say the least, was very slight and very suspicious testimony, his son Crispus, his wife Fausta, and his brother-in-law Licinius. 25. Decline and Fall, vol. I, ch. xvi. 26. Decline and Fall vol. I, ch. xvi. 27. Mosheim vol. I, Book i, part ii, ch. iv. 28. Acts ii: 41. Acts viii: 12, 35-40. 29. That exorcism was not annexed to baptism till some time in the third century, and after the admission of the Platonic philosophy into the church, may almost be demonstrated. The ceremonies used at baptism in the second century are described by Justin Martyr in his second apology, and by Tertullian in his book de Corono Militas. But neither makes mention of exorcism. This is a cogent argument to prove that it was admitted by Christians after the times of these fathers, and of course in the third century. Egypt perhaps first received it. Murdock's Mosheim vol. I, p. 190.--(Note.) 30. Mosheim vol. I, book i, part ii, ch. iv. 31. According to Schlegel, the so-called apostolic constitution (b. viii, ch. 32) enjoined a three years' course of preparation; yet with allowance of some exceptions.