A sign of how Christians improved standards in Persia and elsewhere in the east

This was to be welcomed, noted another writer [Eusebius], as a sign of how Christians improved standards in Persia and elsewhere in the east; 'Persians who have become his disciples no longer marry their mothers,' while those on the steppes no longer 'feed on human flesh, because of Christ's word which has come to them'. Such developments ought to be warmly welcomed, he wrote.

P. Frankopan, The Silk Roads (2015), 39