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1 I | ourselves to this sect, fully accepting the terms of its covenant,
2 I | coming even forth of our own accord to the contest; and condemnation
3 II | thing altogether undivine. Accordingly the true God bestows His
4 II | His own elect; upon which account He has appointed an eternal
5 IV | was a case of vexatious accusation; tearing the document in
6 IV | without the presence of his accuser, as not being consistent
7 IV | denial. It is, in fact, an acknowledgment of our innocence that you
8 IV | Christian milk, was intimately acquainted with this man. Both women
9 II | system under whose rules we act is one inculcating a divine
10 III| seem to themselves to have acted with impunity shall not
11 III| had condemned Mavilus of Adrumetum to the wild beasts, you
12 IV | devote himself, save the affairs of his own community, which
13 IV | spirit, was set free from his affliction; as was also the relative
14 | Afterwards
15 V | persons of every sex and every age and every rank, when they
16 III| when there had been some agitation about places of sepulture
17 IV | with our wards; we give aid to the needy; we render
18 I | those who persecute us, aiming at a perfection all its
19 II | able to find followers of Albinus, or Niger, or Cassius, among
20 II | God bestows His blessings alike on wicked men and on His
21 | almost
22 | already
23 | although
24 III| deluge, no doubt, which in ancient times overtook human unbelief
25 V | required? What will be the anguish of Carthage itself, which
26 II | unwilling, unless they are animated by a spirit of contention,
27 IV | assessors of court, that he was annoyed at having had to meddle
28 IV | having once cured him by anointing, he kept him in his palace
29 V | infliction. When Arrius Antoninus was driving things hard
30 III| it came that their own areoe, their threshing-floors,
31 III| and the cry arose, "No areoe--no burial-grounds for the
32 III| for our dead, and the cry arose, "No areoe--no burial-grounds
33 V | invite their infliction. When Arrius Antoninus was driving things
34 V | was driving things hard in Asia, the whole Christians of
35 IV | peace of the community; as Asper, who, in the case of a man
36 IV | object, it is innocence you assail. But how many rulers, men
37 IV | among the advocates and assessors of court, that he was annoyed
38 V | will be undying, for be assured that just in the time of
39 II | helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel
40 III| and house. You have the astrologers, consult them about it.
41 I | ignorance of men; for we have attached ourselves to this sect,
42 IV | raging populace. Marcus Aurelius also, in his expedition
43 III| their threshing-floors, were awanting, for they gathered in no
44 | away
45 IV | and gave them publicly back to us from the hands of
46 V | province, in one united band, presented themselves before
47 II | though you reckon us to be--in any theft, far less in
48 III| distress us that no state shall bear unpunished the guilt of
49 III| of Adrumetum to the wild beasts, you were overtaken by those
50 | become
51 IV | never pollute the marriage bed; we deal faithfully with
52 IV | those who falsely pretend to belong to us, and whom we, too,
53 II | thunders you tremble, whose benefits minister to your happiness.
54 | besides
55 II | hands of Him who is able to bestow it. And one would think
56 II | Accordingly the true God bestows His blessings alike on wicked
57 II | the true God bestows His blessings alike on wicked men and
58 III| reason you are called to a blood-reckoning. But do not forget the future.~
59 III| a contagious malady, he boiled out in living worms, and
60 IV | remain uninjured; but he even bore distinguished testimony
61 IV | the name of Jupiter, have borne witness to our God. Then
62 IV | another, and the little boy of a third. How many men
63 IV | his fellow-citizens would break the peace of the community;
64 V | seeming overthrow it is built up into greater power. For
65 III| cry arose, "No areoe--no burial-grounds for the Christians," it
66 III| As to the rains of the bygone year, it is abundantly plain
67 III| that doom which overtook Byzantium, Caecilius Capella could
68 III| which overtook Byzantium, Caecilius Capella could not help crying
69 III| the same reason you are called to a blood-reckoning. But
70 IV | acquittal; as Vespronius Candidus, who dismissed from his
71 III| overtook Byzantium, Caecilius Capella could not help crying out, "
72 III| Claudius Lucius Herminianus in Cappadocia, enraged that his wife had
73 II | of Albinus, or Niger, or Cassius, among Christians; while
74 IV | contrived to get quit of such causes altogether,--as Cincius
75 II | of whose existence and character Nature teaches all men;
76 IV | the incest or the cruelty charged against it? It is for freedom
77 IV | such causes altogether,--as Cincius Severus, who himself suggested
78 V | friends of those of your own circle? Spare thyself, if not us
79 V | the leading persons of the city, and either kinsmen or friends
80 II | but the majority in every city--we conduct ourselves so
81 IV | charge, and yet remember the claims of humanity; if on no other
82 III| against us, lost his eyesight. Claudius Lucius Herminianus in Cappadocia,
83 II | think it must be abundantly clear to you that the religious
84 IV | voice as it suits them. The clerk of one of them who was liable
85 V | constrained to rush forth to the combat, if only to prove that we
86 I | grapple with your utmost rage, coming even forth of our own accord
87 IV | do so). For is not your commission simply to condemn those
88 IV | rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered
89 I | of a higher type than the commonplace goodness of the world. For
90 II | individuals than as organized communities, and remarkable only for
91 V | there his relatives and companions, as he sees there it may
92 I | over your ignorance, and compassionating human error, and looking
93 II | service to your gods by compelling us to sacrifice. For they
94 IV | themselves. In a word, who has complaint to make against us on other
95 I | about ourselves, but in much concern for you and for all our
96 III| immediately after you had condemned Mavilus of Adrumetum to
97 II | majority in every city--we conduct ourselves so quietly and
98 IV | instructions to wring from the confessing a denial. It is, in fact,
99 IV | living God, that we are consigned to the flames; for this
100 IV | his accuser, as not being consistent with the imperial commands.
101 II | our numbers are so great--constituting all but the majority in
102 V | we do not feel ourselves constrained to rush forth to the combat,
103 III| You have the astrologers, consult them about it. We can point
104 III| palace, suffering under a contagious malady, he boiled out in
105 II | we daily hold them up to contempt; we exorcise them from their
106 II | animated by a spirit of contention, which is a thing altogether
107 I | of our own accord to the contest; and condemnation gives
108 II | long as that shall Rome continue. To the emperor, therefore,
109 V | dread of them, but on the contrary, even invite their infliction.
110 IV | cruel than you are, have contrived to get quit of such causes
111 II | worship according to his own convictions: one man's religion neither
112 I | accepting the terms of its covenant, so that, as men whose very
113 II | simple prayer. For God, Creator of the universe, has no
114 IV | It is for freedom from crime so singular, for a probity
115 IV | men more resolute and more cruel than you are, have contrived
116 III| sepulture for our dead, and the cry arose, "No areoe--no burial-grounds
117 IV | gratitude for his having once cured him by anointing, he kept
118 II | spirits: we overcome them; we daily hold them up to contempt;
119 III| places of sepulture for our dead, and the cry arose, "No
120 IV | pollute the marriage bed; we deal faithfully with our wards;
121 IV | palace till the day of his death. Antonine, too, brought
122 III| can point you also to the deaths of some provincial rulers,
123 V | which you will have to decimate, as each one recognises
124 II | found guilty of sacrilegious deeds. We have not time to unfold
125 IV | common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed
126 III| intended to remind men--of the deluge, no doubt, which in ancient
127 IV | wring from the confessing a denial. It is, in fact, an acknowledgment
128 IV | Then we never deny the deposit placed in our hands; we
129 II | be according to his own desires. For thus--as less only
130 II | your gods are mocked and despised by their own votaries. So,
131 II | bar. Yet you have never detected us--sacrilegious wretches
132 IV | else does the Christian devote himself, save the affairs
133 | did
134 III| tortures he inflicted, and died almost a Christian himself.
135 IV | from devils, and healed of diseases! Even Severus himself, the
136 IV | uninjured; but he even bore distinguished testimony in their favour,
137 III| remarked, it cannot but distress us that no state shall bear
138 II | act is one inculcating a divine patience; since, though
139 IV | accusation; tearing the document in pieces, he refused so
140 | does
141 IV | once when we confess. In doing your utmost to extirpate
142 III| Christian himself. In that doom which overtook Byzantium,
143 III| remind men--of the deluge, no doubt, which in ancient times
144 V | When Arrius Antoninus was driving things hard in Asia, the
145 IV | When, indeed, have not droughts been put away by our kneelings
146 IV | God. You may perform the duties of your charge, and yet
147 | each
148 III| occurred from an ordinary eclipse, situated as the lord of
149 II | wicked men and on His own elect; upon which account He has
150 | else
151 II | sworn by the genii of the emperors, who had offered and vowed
152 II | desire, with that of the empire over which he reigns so
153 III| and Christian wives take encouragement." Afterwards he came to
154 V | such things as these to endure, we do not feel ourselves
155 IV | even now our people are enduring persecution from the governors
156 II | imperial throne. A Christian is enemy to none, least of all to
157 I | lives are not their own, we engage in these conflicts, our
158 II | after the manner God has enjoined, in simple prayer. For God,
159 III| Herminianus in Cappadocia, enraged that his wife had become
160 V | truth, they straightway enrol themselves its disciples.~
161 III| with impunity shall not escape the day of judgment. For
162 II | account He has appointed an eternal judgment, when both thankful
163 IV | Torpacion, the steward of Euhodias, and in gratitude for his
164 V | inflamed with desire to examine into the matter in question;
165 III| living worms, and was heard exclaiming, "Let nobody know of it,
166 V | a few to be led forth to execution, he said to the rest, "O
167 II | them up to contempt; we exorcise them from their victims,
168 II | our own hands, which we expect to come from God.~
169 IV | Marcus Aurelius also, in his expedition to Germany, by the prayers
170 III| local. Sure are they to experience it one day in its universal
171 III| Utica, with light all but extinguished, was a portent which could
172 IV | In doing your utmost to extirpate us, if that is your object,
173 V | subjected to the threats and extortions at once of the soldiers
174 III| sword against us, lost his eyesight. Claudius Lucius Herminianus
175 IV | confessing a denial. It is, in fact, an acknowledgment of our
176 IV | of a man who gave up his faith under slight infliction
177 IV | the marriage bed; we deal faithfully with our wards; we give
178 IV | righteousness, for purity, for faithfulness, for truth, for the living
179 IV | by our kneelings and our fastings? At times like these, moreover,
180 IV | Even Severus himself, the father of Antonine, was graciously
181 IV | distinguished testimony in their favour, and gave them publicly
182 IV | IV.~We who are without fear ourselves are not seeking
183 V | these to endure, we do not feel ourselves constrained to
184 IV | ground that to satisfy his fellow-citizens would break the peace of
185 | few
186 IV | possible by warning them not to fight with God. You may perform
187 III| day in its universal and final form, who interpret otherwise
188 II | one has ever been able to find followers of Albinus, or
189 IV | we are consigned to the flames; for this is a punishment
190 II | blood. These things are the food of devils. But we not only
191 II | which free-will and not force should lead us--the sacrificial
192 III| blood-reckoning. But do not forget the future.~
193 III| its universal and final form, who interpret otherwise
194 | former
195 IV | an evil spirit, was set free from his affliction; as
196 II | compel religion--to which free-will and not force should lead
197 IV | charged against it? It is for freedom from crime so singular,
198 IV | ourselves are not seeking to frighten you, but we would save all
199 I | ourselves to this sect, fully accepting the terms of its
200 II | devils. However, it is a fundamental human right, a privilege
201 III| were awanting, for they gathered in no harvests. As to the
202 II | men who had sworn by the genii of the emperors, who had
203 IV | also, in his expedition to Germany, by the prayers his Christian
204 IV | you are, have contrived to get quit of such causes altogether,--
205 I | contest; and condemnation gives us more pleas-are than acquittal.
206 V | V.~Your cruelty is our glory. Only see you to it, that
207 II | less only than the true God--he is greater than all besides.
208 II | as is lawful for us and good for him; regarding him as
209 I | type than the commonplace goodness of the world. For all love
210 IV | soldiers offered to God, got rain in that well-known
211 IV | enduring persecution from the governors of Legio and Mauritania;
212 IV | father of Antonine, was graciously mindful of the Christians;
213 I | Hence we shrink not from the grapple with your utmost rage, coming
214 IV | steward of Euhodias, and in gratitude for his having once cured
215 II | though our numbers are so great--constituting all but the
216 IV | make against us on other grounds? To what else does the Christian
217 V | you have precipices or halters." If we should take it into
218 II | benefits minister to your happiness. You think that others,
219 V | Antoninus was driving things hard in Asia, the whole Christians
220 III| thunders pealed, they who were hardened by them can tell. All these
221 II | one man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It
222 III| for they gathered in no harvests. As to the rains of the
223 I | alone to love those that hate them. Therefore mourning
224 V | should take it into our heads to do the same thing here,
225 IV | delivered from devils, and healed of diseases! Even Severus
226 IV | he refused so much as to hear him without the presence
227 III| in living worms, and was heard exclaiming, "Let nobody
228 III| the lord of day was in his height and house. You have the
229 III| Caecilius Capella could not help crying out, "Christians,
230 II | religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly
231 | Hence
232 III| eyesight. Claudius Lucius Herminianus in Cappadocia, enraged that
233 V | before you, and cannot be hidden from you, but to Him you
234 I | disciples something of a higher type than the commonplace
235 IV | man. Both women and men of highest rank, whom Severus knew
236 III| during the presidency of Hilarian, for when there had been
237 II | overcome them; we daily hold them up to contempt; we
238 II | render such reverential homage as is lawful for us and
239 II | and so cannot but love and honour; and whose well-being moreover,
240 III| rulers, who in their last hours had painful memories of
241 III| day was in his height and house. You have the astrologers,
242 IV | yet remember the claims of humanity; if on no other ground than
243 III| to the fires which lately hung all night over the walls
244 II | II.~We are worshippers of one
245 III| III.~However, as we have already
246 II | be it from us to take it ill that we have laid on us
247 III| been a warning only, that, immediately after you had condemned
248 III| things are signs of God's impending wrath, which we must needs
249 III| themselves to have acted with impunity shall not escape the day
250 IV | ever proved guilty of the incest or the cruelty charged against
251 II | whose rules we act is one inculcating a divine patience; since,
252 V | the province, which the indication of your purpose has subjected
253 IV | him, perceiving from the indictment that it was a case of vexatious
254 II | perhaps say, known rather as individuals than as organized communities,
255 V | struck with misgivings, are inflamed with desire to examine into
256 IV | punishment you are not wont to inflict either on the sacrilegious,
257 III| stedfastness by the tortures he inflicted, and died almost a Christian
258 V | but to Him you can do no injury. But those whom you regard
259 IV | yourselves against your instructions to wring from the confessing
260 III| plain of what they were intended to remind men--of the deluge,
261 III| universal and final form, who interpret otherwise these samples
262 IV | was on Christian milk, was intimately acquainted with this man.
263 V | but on the contrary, even invite their infliction. When Arrius
264 | itself
265 IV | IV.~We who are without fear
266 V | presented themselves before his judgment-seat; on which, ordering a few
267 IV | Omnipotent," under the name of Jupiter, have borne witness to our
268 V | undying, for be assured that just in the time of its seeming
269 IV | cured him by anointing, he kept him in his palace till the
270 V | of the city, and either kinsmen or friends of those of your
271 IV | droughts been put away by our kneelings and our fastings? At times
272 IV | highest rank, whom Severus knew well to be Christians, were
273 II | modestly; I might perhaps say, known rather as individuals than
274 II | Emperor of Rome, whom he knows to be appointed by his God,
275 V | your own order, and noble ladies, and all the leading persons
276 | last
277 III| and as to the fires which lately hung all night over the
278 II | reverential homage as is lawful for us and good for him;
279 II | free-will and not force should lead us--the sacrificial victims
280 V | noble ladies, and all the leading persons of the city, and
281 | least
282 V | which, ordering a few to be led forth to execution, he said
283 III| with great cruelty: well, left alone in his palace, suffering
284 IV | persecution from the governors of Legio and Mauritania; but it is
285 I | threatens an unchristian life should overtake us. Hence
286 III| metropolis of Utica, with light all but extinguished, was
287 II | teaches all men; at whose lightnings and thunders you tremble,
288 | like
289 I | the truths you will not listen to openly.~
290 IV | relative of another, and the little boy of a third. How many
291 I | that, as men whose very lives are not their own, we engage
292 III| must pray it may be only local. Sure are they to experience
293 I | compassionating human error, and looking on to that future of which
294 III| eclipse, situated as the lord of day was in his height
295 III| used the sword against us, lost his eyesight. Claudius Lucius
296 III| lost his eyesight. Claudius Lucius Herminianus in Cappadocia,
297 II | constituting all but the majority in every city--we conduct
298 III| suffering under a contagious malady, he boiled out in living
299 II | God and his, and after the manner God has enjoined, in simple
300 IV | hands of a raging populace. Marcus Aurelius also, in his expedition
301 IV | hands; we never pollute the marriage bed; we deal faithfully
302 V | the noble patience of its martyrs, as struck with misgivings,
303 V | private enemies. We have no master but God. He is before you,
304 V | those whom you regard as masters are only men, and one day
305 V | desire to examine into the matter in question; and as soon
306 IV | the governors of Legio and Mauritania; but it is only with the
307 III| after you had condemned Mavilus of Adrumetum to the wild
308 | meanwhile
309 IV | annoyed at having had to meddle with such a case. Pudens,
310 III| their last hours had painful memories of their sin in persecuting
311 III| were intended to remind men--of the deluge, no doubt,
312 IV | be Christians, were not merely permitted by him to remain
313 III| it. That sun, too, in the metropolis of Utica, with light all
314 IV | up as he was on Christian milk, was intimately acquainted
315 II | being required of a willing mind. You will render no real
316 IV | Antonine, was graciously mindful of the Christians; for he
317 II | tremble, whose benefits minister to your happiness. You think
318 V | he said to the rest, "O miserable men, if you wish to die,
319 V | martyrs, as struck with misgivings, are inflamed with desire
320 II | other ways your gods are mocked and despised by their own
321 II | ourselves so quietly and modestly; I might perhaps say, known
322 I | that hate them. Therefore mourning over your ignorance, and
323 V | many thousands, of such a multitude of men and women, persons
324 II | them from their victims, as multitudes can testify. So all the
325 IV | alone Omnipotent," under the name of Jupiter, have borne witness
326 IV | of whom you have so many. Nay, even now our people are
327 I | shows threatening signs, necessity is laid on us to come forth
328 II | of the universe, has no need of odours or of blood. These
329 IV | wards; we give aid to the needy; we render to none evil
330 | neither
331 | next
332 II | followers of Albinus, or Niger, or Cassius, among Christians;
333 III| fires which lately hung all night over the walls of Carthage,
334 | nobody
335 | nor
336 IV | officially brought Under your notice, and by the very advocates,
337 II | patience; since, though our numbers are so great--constituting
338 V | execution, he said to the rest, "O miserable men, if you wish
339 IV | extirpate us, if that is your object, it is innocence you assail.
340 IV | are themselves also under obligations to us, although in court
341 I | conflicts, our desire being to obtain God's promised rewards,
342 III| portent which could not have occurred from an ordinary eclipse,
343 II | universe, has no need of odours or of blood. These things
344 IV | torture, did not compel the offering of sacrifice, having owned
345 II | they can have no desire of offerings from the unwilling, unless
346 IV | commands. All this might be officially brought Under your notice,
347 | often
348 IV | the God of gods, the alone Omnipotent," under the name of Jupiter,
349 I | truths you will not listen to openly.~
350 IV | as from the first it was ordained that we should suffer. But
351 V | it may be men of your own order, and noble ladies, and all
352 V | judgment-seat; on which, ordering a few to be led forth to
353 III| not have occurred from an ordinary eclipse, situated as the
354 II | rather as individuals than as organized communities, and remarkable
355 | others
356 | otherwise
357 IV | punishment yourself, (you ought to do so). For is not your
358 II | those wicked spirits: we overcome them; we daily hold them
359 I | unchristian life should overtake us. Hence we shrink not
360 III| the wild beasts, you were overtaken by those troubles, and that
361 V | the time of its seeming overthrow it is built up into greater
362 IV | offering of sacrifice, having owned before, among the advocates
363 III| in their last hours had painful memories of their sin in
364 II | man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion--
365 IV | fellow-citizens would break the peace of the community; as Asper,
366 III| what the preceding thunders pealed, they who were hardened
367 I | those who love them; it is peculiar to Christians alone to love
368 IV | was brought before him, perceiving from the indictment that
369 I | persecute us, aiming at a perfection all its own, and seeking
370 IV | fight with God. You may perform the duties of your charge,
371 | perhaps
372 IV | which during all the long period of its existence no one
373 IV | Christians, were not merely permitted by him to remain uninjured;
374 I | and to pray for those who persecute us, aiming at a perfection
375 III| memories of their sin in persecuting the followers of Christ.
376 IV | our people are enduring persecution from the governors of Legio
377 I | perturbation or alarm about the persecutions we suffer from the ignorance
378 III| rejoice!" Yes, and the persecutors who seem to themselves to
379 I | WE are not in any great perturbation or alarm about the persecutions
380 IV | tearing the document in pieces, he refused so much as to
381 III| see, indeed, in what took place during the presidency of
382 IV | we never deny the deposit placed in our hands; we never pollute
383 III| been some agitation about places of sepulture for our dead,
384 III| bygone year, it is abundantly plain of what they were intended
385 I | condemnation gives us more pleas-are than acquittal. We have
386 II | things we wish, or in any way plot the vengeance at our own
387 III| consult them about it. We can point you also to the deaths of
388 IV | the remedy at Thysdris, pointing out how the Christians should
389 IV | placed in our hands; we never pollute the marriage bed; we deal
390 V | Spare thyself, if not us poor Christians! Spare Carthage,
391 IV | from the hands of a raging populace. Marcus Aurelius also, in
392 III| but extinguished, was a portent which could not have occurred
393 II | has enjoined, in simple prayer. For God, Creator of the
394 IV | expedition to Germany, by the prayers his Christian soldiers offered
395 III| threatened; and what the preceding thunders pealed, they who
396 V | you wish to die, you have precipices or halters." If we should
397 IV | to hear him without the presence of his accuser, as not being
398 V | and every rank, when they present themselves before you? How
399 V | province, in one united band, presented themselves before his judgment-seat;
400 III| what took place during the presidency of Hilarian, for when there
401 IV | As for those who falsely pretend to belong to us, and whom
402 V | once of the soldiers and of private enemies. We have no master
403 II | fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man
404 IV | crime so singular, for a probity so great, for righteousness,
405 III| we must needs publish and proclaim in every possible way; and
406 IV | sought out the Christian Proculus, surnamed Torpacion, the
407 I | desire being to obtain God's promised rewards, and our dread lest
408 II | their safety, who had often pronounced condemnation on Christ's
409 IV | existence no one has ever proved guilty of the incest or
410 III| also to the deaths of some provincial rulers, who in their last
411 IV | sacrilegious, or on undoubted public enemies, or on the treason-tainted,
412 IV | their favour, and gave them publicly back to us from the hands
413 III| wrath, which we must needs publish and proclaim in every possible
414 IV | meddle with such a case. Pudens, too, at once dismissed
415 IV | for righteousness, for purity, for faithfulness, for truth,
416 V | which the indication of your purpose has subjected to the threats
417 IV | have not droughts been put away by our kneelings and
418 V | examine into the matter in question; and as soon as they come
419 II | we conduct ourselves so quietly and modestly; I might perhaps
420 IV | are, have contrived to get quit of such causes altogether,--
421 I | grapple with your utmost rage, coming even forth of our
422 IV | to us from the hands of a raging populace. Marcus Aurelius
423 IV | soldiers offered to God, got rain in that well-known thirst.
424 III| in no harvests. As to the rains of the bygone year, it is
425 | rather
426 II | mind. You will render no real service to your gods by
427 III| that even now for the same reason you are called to a blood-reckoning.
428 II | to God who from God has received all his power, and is less
429 II | sacrilegious wretches though you reckon us to be--in any theft,
430 V | to decimate, as each one recognises there his relatives and
431 II | remarkable only for the reformation of our former vices. For
432 IV | of our innocence that you refuse to condemn us at once when
433 IV | the document in pieces, he refused so much as to hear him without
434 V | injury. But those whom you regard as masters are only men,
435 II | for us and good for him; regarding him as the human being next
436 II | the empire over which he reigns so long as the world shall
437 II | devils. But we not only reject those wicked spirits: we
438 IV | affliction; as was also the relative of another, and the little
439 V | one recognises there his relatives and companions, as he sees
440 II | part of religion to compel religion--to which free-will and not
441 II | abundantly clear to you that the religious system under whose rules
442 IV | merely permitted by him to remain uninjured; but he even bore
443 II | organized communities, and remarkable only for the reformation
444 III| However, as we have already remarked, it cannot but distress
445 IV | who himself suggested the remedy at Thysdris, pointing out
446 IV | of your charge, and yet remember the claims of humanity;
447 III| what they were intended to remind men--of the deluge, no doubt,
448 IV | to us, and whom we, too, repudiate, let them answer for themselves.
449 IV | how many rulers, men more resolute and more cruel than you
450 V | execution, he said to the rest, "O miserable men, if you
451 II | therefore, we render such reverential homage as is lawful for
452 II | it is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature,
453 IV | a probity so great, for righteousness, for purity, for faithfulness,
454 II | in any sacrilege. But the robbers of your temples, all of
455 II | religious system under whose rules we act is one inculcating
456 V | ourselves constrained to rush forth to the combat, if
457 II | who had offered and vowed sacrifices for their safety, who had
458 II | force should lead us--the sacrificial victims even being required
459 II | any theft, far less in any sacrilege. But the robbers of your
460 V | led forth to execution, he said to the rest, "O miserable
461 III| interpret otherwise these samples of it. That sun, too, in
462 IV | Christian, on the ground that to satisfy his fellow-citizens would
463 III| followers of Christ. Vigellius Saturninus, who first here used the
464 III| walls of Carthage, they who saw them know what they threatened;
465 I | attached ourselves to this sect, fully accepting the terms
466 IV | should answer that they might secure an acquittal; as Vespronius
467 II | well-being, as those who seek it at the hands of Him who
468 | seem
469 | seeming
470 V | relatives and companions, as he sees there it may be men of your
471 I | than acquittal. We have sent, therefore, this tract to
472 III| agitation about places of sepulture for our dead, and the cry
473 II | You will render no real service to your gods by compelling
474 V | women, persons of every sex and every age and every
475 III| unpunished the guilt of shedding Christian blood; as you
476 I | future of which every day shows threatening signs, necessity
477 I | should overtake us. Hence we shrink not from the grapple with
478 II | manner God has enjoined, in simple prayer. For God, Creator
479 IV | For is not your commission simply to condemn those who confess
480 III| painful memories of their sin in persecuting the followers
481 | since
482 III| of judgment. For you we sincerely wish it may prove to have
483 IV | for freedom from crime so singular, for a probity so great,
484 III| from an ordinary eclipse, situated as the lord of day was in
485 IV | gave up his faith under slight infliction of the torture,
486 | something
487 V | matter in question; and as soon as they come to know the
488 IV | of the Christians; for he sought out the Christian Proculus,
489 II | only reject those wicked spirits: we overcome them; we daily
490 II | unthankful will have to stand before His bar. Yet you
491 II | long as the world shall stand--for so long as that shall
492 III| but distress us that no state shall bear unpunished the
493 III| tempted so many from their stedfastness by the tortures he inflicted,
494 IV | surnamed Torpacion, the steward of Euhodias, and in gratitude
495 | still
496 V | to know the truth, they straightway enrol themselves its disciples.~
497 V | patience of its martyrs, as struck with misgivings, are inflamed
498 II | themselves, even they, too, being subject to him. We therefore sacrifice
499 V | indication of your purpose has subjected to the threats and extortions
500 III| left alone in his palace, suffering under a contagious malady,
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