The Great Apostasy, Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History
CHAPTER IV.
_Causes of the Apostasy.--External Causes Considered_.
Causes of the apostasy, external and internal.--Persecution as an external cause.--Judaism and Paganism arrayed against the Church.--Judaistic persecution.--Predictions of Judaistic opposition.--Fulfillment of the same.--Destruction of Jerusalem.