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the life of constantine,

of the contributors who have ambitiously striven in no way to be left behind by him in the execution of the same purpose.

Thus this one also bearing in his own soul the image of the whole Christ, the Word, the Wisdom, the Light, has formed this magnificent temple of the highest God, corresponding to the pattern of the greater as a visible to an invisible, it is impossible to say with what greatness of soul, with what wealth and liberality of mind, and with what emulation on the part of all of you, shown in the magnanimity

Acta Pilati?

To crown all his wickedness, the tyrant resorted to magic. And in his divinations he cut open pregnant women, and again inspected the bowels of newborn infants. He slaughtered lions, and performed various execrable acts to invoke demons and avert war. For his only hope was that, by these means, victory would be secured to him.

Maxentius his son, who obtained the government at Rome, at first feigned our faith, in complaisance and flattery toward the Roman people. On this account he commanded his subjects to cease persecuting the Christians, pretending to religion that he might appear merciful and mild beyond his predecessors

It was in the 19th year of the reign of Diocletian, in the month /March/, that royal edicts were published everywhere, commanding that the churches be leveled to the ground and the Scriptures be destroyed by fire, & ordering that those who held places of honor be degraded, & that the household servants, if they persisted in the profession of Christianity, be deprived of freedom.

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Poäng att apostlarna var gifta, varför idén om religiöst celibat är okristlig