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Originally Posted by Sonist
Of course, some ancient authors were accepted and copied and studied by the zealots and the religious establishment, but they were few and far between.
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Plato is an example of such an author. He was widely revered by the early Christian Church as being a "Christian who lived before Christ". Many of Plato's ideas fit extremely well into a Christian framework. That's one of the reasons that we still have what is believed to be his complete works.