It is clear that the first half-Jewish Christians took care not to
address themselves to the Roman Senators, nor to any man of position
or any one above the lowest level of the people. It is well known
that they appealed only to the lowest class. To these they boasted
of healing nervous diseases, epilepsy, and uterine convulsions,
which ignorant folk, among the Romans as well as among the Jews,
Egyptians, Greeks, and Syrians, regarded as the work of charms or
diabolical possession. There must assuredly have been some cases of
healing. Some were cured in the name of Esculapius, and we have since
discovered at Rome a monument of a miracle of Esculapius, with the
names of the witnesses. Others were healed in the name of Isis, or
of the Syrian goddess; others in the name of Jesus, etc. The common
people healed in one of these names believed in those who propagated
it.