...manner : " Among the important cares which have occupied our minds for the utility and preservation of the empire, it was our intention to correct and...according to the ancient laws and public discipline of the Humans. We were particularly desirous. of reclaiming, into the way of reason and nature, the del tided...

...CHRISTIANITY. 109 reason and nature," ad bonus mentes,'(a. good pretence this for a polytheistic persecutor) " the deluded Christians who had renounced. the religion and ceremonies instituted by their fathers" — this is the precise language of Livy, describing a persecution of a foreign religion three hundred...

...innovations in religion. You have favored us with the translation of this edict, in which ho says, " we were particularly desirous of reclaiming into the way of reason and nature," ad bonas mentes (a good pretence this for a polytheistic persecutor) " the deluded Christians, who...

...things, which for the benefit and commodity of the commonwealth we established, we commanded to reform all things according to the ancient laws and public discipline of the Romans, and also to use this policy, that the Christians, which had forsaken the religion of then- forefathers,...

...innovations in religion. You have favoured us with the translation of this edict, in which he says, " e Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered wi ad bonat mantes, (a good pretence this for a polytheistic persecutor,) " the deluded Christians who...

...manner : " Among the important cares which have occupied our mind for " the utility and preservation of the empire, it was our " intention to correct and re-establish all things according toleration. u fo fae ancient laws and public discipline of the Romans. " We were particularly desirous...

...of the motives, first for beginning, and then for abandoning, a persecution. After setting forth his intention " to correct and re-establish all things...ancient laws and public discipline of the Romans," the emperor proceeds : " We were particularly desirous of reclaiming into the way of reason and nature...

...manner: — "Among the important cares which have occupied our mind for the utility and preservation of the empire, it was our intention to correct and...the practice of antiquity, had invented extravagant opinions according to the dictates of their fancy, and had collected a various society from the different...

...name and those of Licinius and Constantine, in which he says that it was their intention to " reclaim into the way of reason and nature the deluded Christians...religion and cer-emonies instituted by their fathers, . . . but that since they still persist in their impious folly, and being left destitute of any public...

...name and those of Licinius and Constantine, in which he says that it was their intention to " reclaim into the way of reason and nature the deluded Christians who had renounced the religion and ceris an imitation of the history of liahab. of Josue'a times. * Friedrich, Ch, H. of Germ., Vol. I.,...