1. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 3.94 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 116 | 3.94. So saying, Cotta ended. But Lucilius said: "You have indeed made a slashing attack upon the most reverently and wisely constructed Stoic doctrine of the divine providence. But as evening is now approaching, you will assign us a day on which to make our answer to your views. For I have to fight against you on behalf of our altars and hearths, of the temples and shrines of the gods, and of the city-walls, which you as pontifes declare to be sacred and are more careful to hedge the city round with religious ceremonies than even with fortifications; and my conscience forbids me to abandon their cause so long as I yet can breathe." |
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| 2. Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine, 2.1, 3.1 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecutions, of christians, 2nd and 3rd edicts Found in books: Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 44 |
| 3. Lactantius, Deaths of The Persecutors, 12.1-12.2, 14.6 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 69; Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 44 |
4. Eusebius of Caesarea, Life of Constantine, None (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 121, 124 | 3.64. Victor Constantinus, Maximus Augustus, to the heretics. Understand now, by this present statute, you Novatians, Valentinians, Marcionites, Paulians, you who are called Cataphrygians, and all you who devise and support heresies by means of your private assemblies, with what a tissue of falsehood and vanity, with what destructive and venomous errors, your doctrines are inseparably interwoven; so that through you the healthy soul is stricken with disease, and the living becomes the prey of everlasting death. You haters and enemies of truth and life, in league with destruction! All your counsels are opposed to the truth, but familiar with deeds of baseness; full of absurdities and fictions: and by these ye frame falsehoods, oppress the innocent, and withhold the light from them that believe. Ever trespassing under the mask of godliness, you fill all things with defilement: ye pierce the pure and guileless conscience with deadly wounds, while you withdraw, one may almost say, the very light of day from the eyes of men. But why should I particularize, when to speak of your criminality as it deserves demands more time and leisure than I can give? For so long and unmeasured is the catalogue of your offenses, so hateful and altogether atrocious are they, that a single day would not suffice to recount them all. And, indeed, it is well to turn one's ears and eyes from such a subject, lest by a description of each particular evil, the pure sincerity and freshness of one's own faith be impaired. Why then do I still bear with such abounding evil; especially since this protracted clemency is the cause that some who were sound have become tainted with this pestilent disease? Why not at once strike, as it were, at the root of so great a mischief by a public manifestation of displeasure? 3.65. Forasmuch, then, as it is no longer possible to bear with your pernicious errors, we give warning by this present statute that none of you henceforth presume to assemble yourselves together. We have directed, accordingly, that you be deprived of all the houses in which you are accustomed to hold your assemblies: and our care in this respect extends so far as to forbid the holding of your superstitious and senseless meetings, not in public merely, but in any private house or place whatsoever. Let those of you, therefore, who are desirous of embracing the true and pure religion, take the far better course of entering the catholic Church, and uniting with it in holy fellowship, whereby you will be enabled to arrive at the knowledge of the truth. In any case, the delusions of your perverted understandings must entirely cease to mingle with and mar the felicity of our present times: I mean the impious and wretched double-mindedness of heretics and schismatics. For it is an object worthy of that prosperity which we enjoy through the favor of God, to endeavor to bring back those who in time past were living in the hope of future blessing, from all irregularity and error to the right path, from darkness to light, from vanity to truth, from death to salvation. And in order that this remedy may be applied with effectual power, we have commanded, as before said, that you be positively deprived of every gathering point for your superstitious meetings, I mean all the houses of prayer, if such be worthy of the name, which belong to heretics, and that these be made over without delay to the catholic Church; that any other places be confiscated to the public service, and no facility whatever be left for any future gathering; in order that from this day forward none of your unlawful assemblies may presume to appear in any public or private place. Let this edict be made public. 4.24. Hence it was not without reason that once, on the occasion of his entertaining a company of bishops, he let fall the expression, that he himself too was a bishop, addressing them in my hearing in the following words: You are bishops whose jurisdiction is within the Church: I also am a bishop, ordained by God to overlook whatever is external to the Church. And truly his measures corresponded with his words: for he watched over his subjects with an episcopal care, and exhorted them as far as in him lay to follow a godly life. |
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| 5. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 1.2.1-1.2.3 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 73 |
6. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 8.2, 8.2.5, 8.6, 8.6.8-8.6.10, 10.1.2 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 116; Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 44 | 8.2.5. Such was the first edict against us. But not long after, other decrees were issued, commanding that all the rulers of the churches in every place be first thrown into prison, and afterwards by every artifice be compelled to sacrifice. 8.6.8. Such things occurred in Nicomedia at the beginning of the persecution. But not long after, as persons in the country called Melitene, and others throughout Syria, attempted to usurp the government, a royal edict directed that the rulers of the churches everywhere should be thrown into prison and bonds. 8.6.9. What was to be seen after this exceeds all description. A vast multitude were imprisoned in every place; and the prisons everywhere, which had long before been prepared for murderers and robbers of graves, were filled with bishops, presbyters and deacons, readers and exorcists, so that room was no longer left in them for those condemned for crimes. 8.6.10. And as other decrees followed the first, directing that those in prison if they would sacrifice should be permitted to depart in freedom, but that those who refused should be harassed with many tortures, how could any one, again, number the multitude of martyrs in every province, and especially of those in Africa, and Mauritania, and Thebais, and Egypt? From this last country many went into other cities and provinces, and became illustrious through martyrdom. 10.1.2. Since in accordance with your wishes, my most holy Paulinus, we have added the tenth book of the Church History to those which have preceded, we will inscribe it to you, proclaiming you as the seal of the whole work; and we will fitly add in a perfect number the perfect panegyric upon the restoration of the churches, obeying the Divine Spirit which exhorts us in the following words: |
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| 7. Lactantius, Divine Institutes, 1.1.12-1.1.17, 4.13.1, 5.2-5.4, 5.2.3-5.2.4, 5.4.1, 5.11.15, 5.12.1, 5.19.20 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 74 |
| 8. Constantine I Emperor of Rome, Oratio Ad Sanctorum Coetum, 25 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecutions, of christians, 2nd and 3rd edicts Found in books: Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 44 |
| 9. Optatus of Mileve, Appendix Decem Monumentorum Veterum, 5 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 81 |
| 10. Theodoret of Cyrus, Ecclesiastical History, 5.18.5 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
| 11. Zosimus, New History, 4.36.5 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 122 |
| 12. Theodosius Ii Emperor of Rome, Theodosian Code, 16.1.3, 16.5.1-16.5.2, 16.5.11-16.5.15 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 121, 123 |
| 13. Jerome, On Illustrious Men, 80 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 73 |
| 14. Jerome, Letters, None (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 124 |
| 15. Jerome, Letters, None (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 124 |
| 16. Jerome, Letters, None (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 124 |
| 17. Justinian, Codex Justinianus, 1.1.1, 1.1.5-1.1.8 (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 122, 124 |
| 18. Justinian, Institutiones, 1.1.1 (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 70, 74 |
| 19. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q550, None Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 74 |
| 21. Anon., Martyrdom of Crispina, 1.2-1.3 Tagged with subjects: •persecutions, of christians, 2nd and 3rd edicts Found in books: Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 44 |
| 22. Sozomenus, Ecclesiastical History, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 123 |
| 23. Domitius Ulpianus, Digesta, 1.1.2 Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 70, 74, 116 |
24. Severus, Chronica, 2.33, 2.51.8-2.51.10 Tagged with subjects: •persecution, edicts of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 116 | 2.33. Well, the end of the persecutions was reached eighty-eight years ago, at which date the emperors began to be Christians. For Constantine then obtained the sovereignty, and he was the first Christian of all the Roman rulers. At that time, it is true, Licinius, who was a rival of Constantine for the empire, had commanded his soldiers to sacrifice, and was expelling from the service those who refused to do so. But that is not reckoned among the persecutions; it was an affair of too little moment to be able to inflict any wound upon the churches. From that time, we have continued to enjoy tranquillity; nor do I believe that there will be any further persecutions, except that which Antichrist will carry on just before the end of the world. For it has been proclaimed in divine words, that the world was to be visited by ten afflictions; and since nine of these have already been endured, the one which remains must be the last. During this period of time, it is marvelous how the Christian religion has prevailed. For Jerusalem which had presented a horrible mass of ruins was then adorned with most numerous and magnificent churches. And Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine (who reigned along with her son as Augusta), having a strong desire to behold Jerusalem, cast down the idols and the temples which were found there; and in course of time, through the exercise of her royal powers, she erected churches on the site of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension. It is a remarkable fact that the spot on which the divine footprints had last been left when the Lord was carried up in a cloud to heaven, could not be joined by a pavement with the remaining part of the street. For the earth, unaccustomed to mere human contact, rejected all the appliances laid upon it, and often threw back the blocks of marble in the faces of those who were seeking to place them. Moreover, it is an enduring proof of the soil of that place having been trodden by God, that the footprints are still to be seen; and although the faith of those who daily flock to that place, leads them to vie with each other in seeking to carry away what had been trodden by the feet of the Lord, yet the sand of the place suffers no injury; and the earth still preserves the same appearance which it presented of old, as if it had been sealed by the footprints impressed upon it. |
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