ABSTRACT
The view of Rome promulgated by Christians in the entourage of the emperor Constantine in the fourth century could hardly have been more different from the antagonistic stance of the author of Revelation, as we have already noted in the case of the Church historian Eusebius (see Chapter 31). For Constantine, his role as Christian was to be presented by the end of his life in ad 337 as indivisible from his duties as emperor, and the special mausoleum he prepared for himself in his new capital Constantinople presented him in death as the Thirteenth Apostle. 1 What had changed in the Roman world to bring about this reconciliation between Christians and the state?
