When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
“What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.”
“Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.”