CH 5, ¶6

The testimony of Pliny, who lived soon after Paul, is helpful in this subject. His careful account of the Christians’ behavior describes their customs of meeting together for the purpose of worship and mutual accountability in refraining from certain practices, including theft, adultery, and deceit. Pliny’s accounts show the abnormally high moral standards of the early Christians. Logically then, we can conclude that this too applied to the apostles, since it is unlikely that the eye witnesses of Christ held lower moral standards than their successors. (Depue)