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1 Int | hostility manifested towards the Christians forbade them the rights
2 Int | close bonds which united the Christians together in a true fraternity,
3 Int | charges brought against the Christians,—Sacrilege and Disloyalty
4 Ana | reality, the presence of the Christians has mitigated the violence
5 I | facts in the case of the Christians;—if your authority either
6 I | being such, they become Christians, particularly when they
7 I | state is beset, that the Christians are in the rural districts,
8 I | recognize as evil. But with Christians the case is totally different.
9 II | undefended and unheard. But Christians alone are forbidden to say
10 II | the condemnation of some Christians and the degradation of others,
11 II | make them confess; to the Christians alone, to make them deny;
12 II | like others who are not Christians 8), you can well understand
13 II(8) | which in early days the Christians were subjected. The most
14 III | licentious! They have become Christians.' Thus the name is credited
15 III | comparison with hatred of the Christians. ~Now then, if this hatred
16 IV | not to be found amongst Christians which our accusers are well
17 V | to those who accused the Christians. Consult your own records :
18 V | can one persecutor of the Christians. We, however, can on the
19 V(15) | rain was attributed by the Christians in the army to their own
20 V(15) | contain a reference to the Christians. He does not profess to
21 V(15) | cruel sufferings of the Christians during this emperor's reign.
22 V | obtained through the prayers of Christians who happened to be in the
23 V | frustrated by forbidding Christians to be enquired for; which
24 VI | who at any rate were not Christians, forbade the Capitol, that
25 VI | which you pronounce the Christians principally guilty of transgression,
26 VII | executioner carry out against the Christians, namely, not to make them
27 VII | privy to the crimes of the Christians. This is the informer you
28 VIII | such assertions about the Christians as ought at any rate to
29 VIII | why do they still continue Christians? For it follows that you
30 IX | continued. It is not the Christians alone who defy you; no crime
31 IX | panting for the blood of the Christians,—how many, think you, of
32 IX | repasts from the feasts of the Christians? But do they do less who
33 IX | blush in the presence of Christians, who do not reckon the blood
34 IX | the tests applied to the Christians you present to them sausage-skins
35 IX | applied as a test to the Christians in the same manner as the
36 IX | they do not exist amongst Christians. The same eyes would have
37 X | of course follow that the Christians must be punished, if it
38 XII | manufacture. You place the Christians on crosses and stakes :
39 XII | You tear the sides of the Christians with claws : but to your
40 XV | complain of you than of the Christians. Certainly those guilty
41 XV | from among yourselves. For Christians never enter your temples
42 XVI(39) | the sign of the Cross by Christians in their daily occupations,
43 XVI(41) | of light, was adopted by Christians as expressive of the coming
44 XVI | this sort: "The god of the Christians conceived of an ass 44."
45 XVIII | were one of yourselves; Christians are made Christians and
46 XVIII | yourselves; Christians are made Christians and not born so. ~Those
47 XXI | Caesars could have been Christians too. His disciples also
48 XXI | to make you believe the Christians, I can employ those on whose
49 XXIII | acknowledge is subject to the Christians; and that surely cannot
50 XXIII | He and He Alone Whom we Christians confess, and whether He
51 XXIII | faith and doctrine of the Christians have laid down. ~Here some
52 XXIII | lamentation of all except the Christians, as the Power of God, and
53 XXIII | moreover, are wont to make men Christians, because by believing them
54 XXIII | even with the blood of Christians. Consequently they would
55 XXIII | some day or other to become Christians; even if it were possible
56 XXV | s decease, and then the Christians would not have ridiculed
57 XXX | his spirit. ~Thither we Christians look up with hands outstretched
58 XXXI | enemies and persecutors of the Christians than those towards whom
59 XXXII(82) | g Christians did not scruple to swear
60 XXXIII | regard and loyalty of the Christians towards the emperor? for
61 XXXV | rank. ~ON these grounds the Christians, then, are public enemies,
62 XXXV | majesty, concerning which we Christians are judicially accused of
63 XXXV | found to be worse than the Christians. You yourselves, O Quirites,
64 XXXV | for the punishment of the Christians than the vulgar. Of course
65 XXXV | mistaken; that is, not from the Christians. And yet indeed all these
66 XXXV | of public enemies to the Christians! Take the case, too, of
67 XXXV | are forbidden by God, the Christians do not resort to even about
68 XXXVII | do you rage against the Christians, partly in gratification
69 XXXVII | even the dead bodies of Christians, but drag them out from
70 XXXVII | can count your armies; the Christians of one province are more
71 XXXVII(99)| z The Vindex of Christians is God, and their ultio
72 XXXVII | reason of the multitude of Christians, since nearly all the citizens 100
73 XXXVII | nearly all the states are Christians. Yet you prefer to call
74 XXXIX | aroused. The feast of the Christians alone is made a subject
75 XXXIX | instruction. ~This assembly of the Christians would, indeed, have been
76 XL | them. The presence of the Christians in the world has tempered
77 XL | falsehood, that they believe the Christians are the cause of every public
78 XL | the first cry is, 'The Christians to the lion!' So many to
79 XL | any complaint about the Christians in that day when fire poured
80 XL | when the world received the Christians from God. For from that
81 XLI | unjust if, on account of the Christians, they injure their own worshippers
82 XLI | from the deserts of the Christians. 'This argument,' you say, '
83 XLI | you to the grief of the Christians?
84 XLII | cost for the burials of Christians, than in fumigating your
85 XLII | revenues will be grateful to us Christians, who pay what is due 113
86 XLII(113) | scrupulous honesty of the Christians in this particular, as in
87 XLIII | unprofitableness of the Christians to them. First amongst these
88 XLIV | as a Christian? Or when Christians are brought into court on
89 XLIV(115) | q i.e. of being Christians; the very name was criminal:
90 XLIV(116) | cease to be regarded as Christians among us:' i.e. they fall
91 XLVI | demands the blood of the Christians. We have presented an account
92 XLVI | termed philosophers, not Christians. This name of philosophers
93 XLVI | being seekers after fame: Christians necessarily desire the truth
94 XLVI | cease to be regarded as Christians by us; whereas philosophers,
95 XLVII | ought not to be given to the Christians, because it cannot be given
96 XLVII | none can be given to the Christians. Consequently we are ridiculed
97 L | multitude if you sacrifice the Christians to their wishes. Crucify,
98 L | by you : the blood of the Christians is a source of new life 130. ~
99 L | so many disciples as the Christians have gained by their practical
100 App | AND TRAJAN RESPECTING THE CHRISTIANS. ~(Plin. Epist. x. 96, 97.) ~
101 App | the empire in which the Christians were particularly numerous.
102 App | the judicial trials of the Christians, and I am therefore ignorant
103 App | were accused to me of being Christians. I asked them whether they
104 App | asked them whether they were Christians : if they confessed it,
105 App | either were, or had been, Christians. When at my dictation they
106 App | they who are in real verity Christians be forced to perform,—I
107 App | informer, said that they were Christians, but presently denied it;
108 App | others said they had been Christians, but had ceased now to be
109 App(138) | of the lives of the early Christians,—borne, be it remembered,
110 App | accused to you of being Christians. No universal rule, however,
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