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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVI: Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To
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See Diogenes Laertius, l.x.c.

26.] [Footnote 141: Cumque alios audiam mussitare indignanter, et dicere opportere statui per Senatum, aboleantur ut haec scripta, quibus Christiana Religio comprobetur, et vetustatis opprimatur auctoritas.
Arnobius adversus Gentes, l.iii.p.103, 104.

He adds very properly, Erroris convincite Ciceronem...

nam intercipere scripta, et publicatam velle submergere lectionem, non est Deum defendere sed veritatis testificationem timere.] [Footnote 142: Lactantius (Divin.Institut.l.v.c.

2, 3) gives a very clear and spirited account of two of these philosophic adversaries of the faith.


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