A Hard Throne Brings People Into the Church

The year 250 CE has come up a couple times in this episode. It was around this year that Origen, as an older man, was writing his famous defense of Christianity. The Emperor Decius, a well-known persecutor of Christians, was on the throne. In 251, again the second year of the Kiprian Plague, and yet another year of multiple short-lived emperors on the throne,. Christian church organization in Rome alone had an impressive financial framework.