Meh. People have been asking that question for 2000 years, each time with “really, THIS time it’s DIFFERENT!”
No, and it’s not.
Meh. People have been asking that question for 2000 years, each time with “really, THIS time it’s DIFFERENT!”
I'm re-reading Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History now. There's one point where Eusebius (from the early fourth century) quotes something written by someone during a persecution going on about mid-second century. They were sure, then, that the return was immanent. Any time now.