[57:1] Acts xv., 23; xvi., 4; xx., 17, 28; Phil. i., 1; 1 Tim. iii.; iv., 14; v., 17-19; Tit. i., 5-7; James v., 14; Clement, _To Corinth_, xlii., 44. _Cf._ Rev. iv., 4; v., 5, 6; vii., 11, 13. [57:2] Phil. i., 1. [57:3] 1 Tim. iii., 1-13; v., 17-19; Tit. i., 5-7; Heb. xi., 2. [57:4] 1 Pet. v., 1-2. [57:5] _To Corinth_, ch. xliii. The Didache and Shepherd of Hermas offer additional testimony on this point. [59:1] See various dictionaries of the Bible. [59:2] Ex. xxiv., 1; Num. xi., 16; Gen. l., 7-8; Lev. iv., 15; Deut. xxi., 19; 1 Sam. xvi., 4; Ezra v., 5; Psalm cvii., 32; Ezek. viii., 1; Acts iv., 8; Matt. xxi., 23; xxvii., 1; Luke xxii., 66. [59:3] Hatch, 62-66. [59:4] Hatch, 69-73; Acts xx., 28-31; 1 Pet. v., 1; 1 Tim. v., 17. [59:5] Acts xvi., 4. [59:6] Acts xx., 29-31, 35; Tertullian, _Apol._, 39. [59:7] James v., 14. [60:1] 1 Tim. i., 3. [60:2] Tit. i., 5. [61:1] _Ep._ 146, _Ad Evangelum_; _cf._ _Ep._ 82 and 84. _Apost. Const._, iii., c. 11. [61:2] _1 Ep. to Timoth._, c. 3. [61:3] Hatch, 106-109. [62:1] Neander, i., 192, 193. [62:2] Hatch, 54. [63:1] Euseb., vi., 43; Neander, i., § 2; Kurtz, i., § 34; Alzog, i., § 83; Moeller, i., 234. [64:1] Acts ii., 44, 45. [64:2] Acts ii., 42, 46. [64:3] Mat. xviii., 15-18; Tit. iii., 10; 1 Cor. v., 5. CHAPTER V THE ROMAN CHURCH AND PETER'S PRIMACY OUTLINE: I.--Planting of the church in Rome and its organisation there. II.--The two opposing views of the Petrine theory. III.--Proofs advanced for the Petrine theory. IV.--Evidence given against the Petrine theory. V.--Historical conclusions. VI.--Sources. Reports concerning the teachings and labours of Jesus must have early reached Rome.[71:1] A perpetual stream of strangers and provincials flowed into Rome from every quarter of the Empire, hence every new creed, theory, and organisation was soon known in the capital.[71:2] Roman merchants, sailors, soldiers, or public officials, or the Jews, or the Greeks, might have carried news of the new sect to the heart of imperial power. Tertullian mentions the legend that Emperor Tiberius sought to include Jesus among the Roman gods, but his plan was frustrated by the Roman Senate.[71:3] Eusebius declared that this same ruler, "being obviously pleased with the doctrine," threatened "death to the accusers of the Christians."[71:4] It seems reasonable to conclude, then, that Christianity, soon after its birth, was introduced into the Eternal City.