The Roman came to the Church as he came to a new province. He gravely surveyed the situation, considered the existing arrangements, accepted them, drew up as it were a _lex provinciae_ to secure their proper administration, and thereafter interpreted it in accordance with the usual principles of Roman {147} law, and, like the procurator in Achaea, left the Greeks to discuss any abstract propositions they pleased. Tertullian and Cyprian were lawyers, and gave Latin Christendom the language, in which in later days the relations of man with his Divine Sovereign were worked out by the great Latin Fathers. [Sidenote: Freedom from daemons] The confession of Tatian, above cited, emphasizes as one of the great features of the barbarian literature--its "monarchic" teaching--"it sets man free from ten thousand tyrants"--and this may be our starting-point in considering the new experience. To be rid of the whole daemon-world, to have left the daemons behind and their "hatred of men,"[16] their astrology,[17] their immorality and cruelty, their sacrifices, and the terror of "possession" and theolepsy and enchantment,[18] was happiness in itself. "We are above fate," said Tatian, "and, instead of daemons that deceive, we have learnt one master who deceiveth not."[19] "Christ," wrote an unknown Christian of a beautiful spirit--"Christ wished to save the perishing, and such mercy has he shown us that we the living do not serve dead gods, but through him we know the Father of truth."[20] "Orpheus sang to beguile men, but my Singer has come to end the tyranny of daemons," said Clement.[21] The perils of "meats offered to idols" impressed some, who feared that by eating of them they would come under daemoniac influence. With what relief they must have read Paul's free speech on the subject--"the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof"--"for us there is one God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him."[22] "Even the very name of Jesus is terrible to the daemons"[23]--the "name that is above every name." In no other name was there salvation from daemons, for philosophy had made terms with them.