 Campegius Vitringa (c. 1700), Alexander Keith (1832), and Edward Bishop Elliott (1837) considered this period to have started with the death of Domitian and Nerva’s rise to power in the year 96.This began Rome’s "Golden age" where the spread of the Gospel and Christianity flourished.To 17th-century Dutch Protestant theologian, Vitringa, it lasted up until Decius (249).