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... . Clarke , Nat . and Rev. Rel . p . 180 , ed . v . - Except Socrates , they all thought it wiser to comply with the laws than to contend . bildung general general persecution being denounced against them by imperial authority . 28.
... . Clarke , Nat . and Rev. Rel . p . 180 , ed . v . - Except Socrates , they all thought it wiser to comply with the laws than to contend . bildung general general persecution being denounced against them by imperial authority . 28.
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William Paley. general persecution being denounced against them by imperial authority . Some length of time , I should suppose , might pass , before the vast machine of the Ro- man empire would be put in motion , or its attention be ...
William Paley. general persecution being denounced against them by imperial authority . Some length of time , I should suppose , might pass , before the vast machine of the Ro- man empire would be put in motion , or its attention be ...
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... persecution being denounced against them by sovereign authority . For , from Pliny's doubt how he was to act , his silence concerning any subsisting law upon the subject , his requesting 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 concerning any subsisting law upon the subject , his requesting the emperor's rescript , and the emperor ...
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... persecution of Christians . This observation is farther confirmed by a rescript of Adrian to Minucius Fundanus , the pro - consul of Asia * : from which re- script it appears that the custom of the people of Asia was to proceed against ...
... persecution of Christians . This observation is farther confirmed by a rescript of Adrian to Minucius Fundanus , the pro - consul of Asia * : from which re- script it appears that the custom of the people of Asia was to proceed against ...
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... persecuted me , they will also persecute you , was the warning of common sense . With this ex- ample before their eyes , they could not be without a full sense of the peril of their fu- ture enterprise . 2. Secondly , all the histories ...
... persecuted me , they will also persecute you , was the warning of common sense . With this ex- ample before their eyes , they could not be without a full sense of the peril of their fu- ture enterprise . 2. Secondly , all the histories ...
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