1·The Christian church has adapted many pagan ideas over the centuries.
几个世纪以来，基督教会已经采用并改编许多异教思想。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The tradition, dating back to 300 B.C., was later incorporated into the Christian church.
这个传统可以追溯至公元前300年，后来被纳入基督教会。
3·This time we no longer look at the text objectively. Let's look at what an early Christian church looked like.
这次我们不再客观地看文本。我们来看看一个早期基督教会的样子。
4·It was used primarily as a vehicle for teaching religion and was generally presented in Latin, the language of the Christian Church which had considerable influence in Italy at that time.
它主要用作宗教教学的工具，通常用拉丁语表达，也就是当时在意大利影响相当大的基督教会语言。