Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — Early Christian Milkmen. [ARTICLE]

Early Christian Milkmen.

St. Irenceus, one of the very early fathers of the church, in the second century after Christ, writes as follows: “As was said by one, concerning all who in any way deprave the things of God and adulterate the truth, ‘it is evil mingling gypsum with milk.’ ” Some have thought that St. Peter, when he used the expression in his epistle, “the sincere milk of the word,” means “unadulterated” milk. Certainly the Greek word which means in one version we translate “sincere,” would bear this interpretation. I