Re: The Early Christians: Creed, Confession and Scripture

When, however, the prophetic Spirit speaks as proclaimer of the future, he 
says:

The law shall go out from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem,
and 
he shall judge among the nations and rebuke many people. They shall turn 
their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles; nation shall 
not lift up sword against nation any longer, and they shall study war no 
more.

You can be convinced that this has really happened now, for twelve men, 
illiterate and unskilled in speaking, went out from Jerusalem into the 
world. Through the power of God they revealed to the whole of humankind 
that they were sent by Christ to proclaim the word of God to everyone. Now

we who once murdered one another not only refrain from all hatred of our 
enemies, but more than that, in order to avoid lying or deceiving our 
examining judges, we meet death cheerfully for confessing to Christ.	

Justin, First Apology 39.