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... . and Rev. Rel . p . 180 , ed . v . Except Socrates , they all thought it wiser to comply with the laws than to contend . much from these causes , without any general persecution being 42 [ Part I. Evidences of Christianity .
... . and Rev. Rel . p . 180 , ed . v . Except Socrates , they all thought it wiser to comply with the laws than to contend . much from these causes , without any general persecution being 42 [ Part I. Evidences of Christianity .
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William Paley. much from these causes , without any general persecution being denounced against them by imperial authority . Some length of time , I should suppose , might pass , before the vast machine of the Roman empire would be put ...
William Paley. much from these causes , without any general persecution being denounced against them by imperial authority . Some length of time , I should suppose , might pass , before the vast machine of the Roman empire would be put ...
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... persecution than the short and occasional one which Tacitus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it should seem , to commemorate the cruelties ex- ercised under Nero's government , has the ...
... persecution than the short and occasional one which Tacitus describes . Juvenal , a writer of the same age with the two former , and intending , it should seem , to commemorate the cruelties ex- ercised under Nero's government , has the ...
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... and which I think of importance to be observed , namely , the sufferings to which Christians were exposed , with- 6 out any public persecution being denounced against them by sovereign 54 [ Part I. Evidences of Christianity .
... and which I think of importance to be observed , namely , the sufferings to which Christians were exposed , with- 6 out any public persecution being denounced against them by sovereign 54 [ Part I. Evidences of Christianity .
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... persecution of Christians . This observation is farther confirmed by a rescript of Adrian to Minucius Fundanus , the proconsul of Asia : from which rescript it appears that the custom of the people of Asia was to proceed against the ...
... persecution of Christians . This observation is farther confirmed by a rescript of Adrian to Minucius Fundanus , the proconsul of Asia : from which rescript it appears that the custom of the people of Asia was to proceed against the ...
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