Here, then, are three examples where no delay was granted .-- --[Surely these acts of a single passionate and irritated judge prove the general practice as little as those quoted by Gibbon .-- M.] There exist a multitude of others, such as those of Ptolemy, Marcellus, &c.

Justin expressly charges the judges with ordering the accused to be executed without hearing the cause.

The words of St.Cyprian are as particular, and simply say, that he had appointed a day by which the Christians must have renounced their faith; those who had not done it by that time were condemned .-- G.

This confirms the statement in the text .-- M.] [Footnote 100: Tertullian considers flight from persecution as an imperfect, but very criminal, apostasy, as an impious attempt to elude the will of God, &c., &c.

He has written a treatise on this subject, (see p.