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Page 44
... Chriftians . The founder of that name was Chrift , who fuffered death in the reign of Tiberius , under his procurator Pon- tius Pilate . This pernicious fuperftition , thus checked for a while , broke out again ; and spread not only ...
... Chriftians . The founder of that name was Chrift , who fuffered death in the reign of Tiberius , under his procurator Pon- tius Pilate . This pernicious fuperftition , thus checked for a while , broke out again ; and spread not only ...
Page 46
... Chriftians ( ingens eorum multitudo ) were found at Rome . From which fact , the two follow- ing inferences may be fairly drawn : first , that , if , in the space of thirty - four years from its commencement , the religion had fpread ...
... Chriftians ( ingens eorum multitudo ) were found at Rome . From which fact , the two follow- ing inferences may be fairly drawn : first , that , if , in the space of thirty - four years from its commencement , the religion had fpread ...
Page 47
... Chriftians , a fet of men , of a new and mischievous ( or ma- gical ) fuperftition , were punished . " Since it is not mentioned here that the burning of the city was the pretence of the punishment of the Chriftians , or that they were ...
... Chriftians , a fet of men , of a new and mischievous ( or ma- gical ) fuperftition , were punished . " Since it is not mentioned here that the burning of the city was the pretence of the punishment of the Chriftians , or that they were ...
Page 50
... Chriftians in Bithynia and Pontus , which was fo confiderable as to in- duce the governor of these provinces to fpeak of them in the following terms , " Multi , omnis ætatis , utriufque fexûs etiam -neque enim civitates tantum , fed ...
... Chriftians in Bithynia and Pontus , which was fo confiderable as to in- duce the governor of these provinces to fpeak of them in the following terms , " Multi , omnis ætatis , utriufque fexûs etiam -neque enim civitates tantum , fed ...
Page 51
... Chriftians in force . Yet from this fame epiftle of Pliny it ap- " that accufations , trials , and examina- tions ... Christians , declared that they had long ceafed to be fuch . " All which demon- ftrates , that the profeffion of ...
... Chriftians in force . Yet from this fame epiftle of Pliny it ap- " that accufations , trials , and examina- tions ... Christians , declared that they had long ceafed to be fuch . " All which demon- ftrates , that the profeffion of ...
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