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... persecution being denounced against them by imperial authority . Some length of time , I should suppose , * The best of the ancient philosophers , Plato , Cicero , and Epictetus , allowed , or rather enjoined , men to worship the gods ...
... persecution being denounced against them by imperial authority . Some length of time , I should suppose , * The best of the ancient philosophers , Plato , Cicero , and Epictetus , allowed , or rather enjoined , men to worship the gods ...
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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 commemo- rate the cruelties exercised 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 commemo- rate the cruelties exercised under Nero's government , has the ...
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... persecution being denounced against them by sovereign authority . For , from Pliny's doubt how he was to act , his silence con- cerning any subsisting law on the subject , his request- ing the emperor's rescript , and the emperor ...
... persecution being denounced against them by sovereign authority . For , from Pliny's doubt how he was to act , his silence con- cerning any subsisting law on the subject , his request- ing the emperor's rescript , and the emperor ...
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William Paley. the persecution of Christians . This observation is further 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 ...
William Paley. the persecution of Christians . This observation is further 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 ...
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... persecuted me , they will also persecute you , was the warning of common sense . With this example before their eyes ... persecution ariseth for the word's sake , immediately they are offended . " + " They shall lay hands on you , and ...
... persecuted me , they will also persecute you , was the warning of common sense . With this example before their eyes ... persecution ariseth for the word's sake , immediately they are offended . " + " They shall lay hands on you , and ...
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