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... persecution , this extra- ordinary action was rather admired than censured . As it was , his general practice to allegorize scripture , it seems unfortunate that , in this instance only , he should have adopted the literal sense . ( 97 ) ...
... persecution , this extra- ordinary action was rather admired than censured . As it was , his general practice to allegorize scripture , it seems unfortunate that , in this instance only , he should have adopted the literal sense . ( 97 ) ...
Side 90
... persecute the Christians by their own avarice , or that of their Prætorian præfects . ( 135 ) Cyprian . Epistol . 62 . ( 136 ) Tertullian de Præscriptione , c . 30 . ( 137 ) Diocletian gave a rescript , which is only a declaration of ...
... persecute the Christians by their own avarice , or that of their Prætorian præfects . ( 135 ) Cyprian . Epistol . 62 . ( 136 ) Tertullian de Præscriptione , c . 30 . ( 137 ) Diocletian gave a rescript , which is only a declaration of ...
Side 93
... persecution of Diocletian . This persecution had been much less severely felt in Spain than in Galatia ; a difference which may , in some measure , account for the contrast of their re- gulations . The dignity The well - tempered ...
... persecution of Diocletian . This persecution had been much less severely felt in Spain than in Galatia ; a difference which may , in some measure , account for the contrast of their re- gulations . The dignity The well - tempered ...
Side 100
... persecuted with the triumphant church , the West with the East , remote villages with populous towns , and countries recently converted to the faith with the place where the believers first received the appellation of Chris- tians ! It ...
... persecuted with the triumphant church , the West with the East , remote villages with populous towns , and countries recently converted to the faith with the place where the believers first received the appellation of Chris- tians ! It ...
Side 101
... persecution of Nero , are represented by Tacitus as already amounting to a very great multi- tude ( 167 ) , and the language of that great historian is almost simi- lar to the style employed by Livy , when he relates the introduction ...
... persecution of Nero , are represented by Tacitus as already amounting to a very great multi- tude ( 167 ) , and the language of that great historian is almost simi- lar to the style employed by Livy , when he relates the introduction ...
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