The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 2Methuen, 1896 - Byzantine Empire |
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... Reign of Nero Cruel Punishment of the Christians as the Incendiaries of the City ... ... Remarks on the Passage of ... Reigns of Commodus and Severus 211-249 . Of the Successors of Severus 109 ... III Of Maximin , Philip , and Decius 112 ...
... Reign of Nero Cruel Punishment of the Christians as the Incendiaries of the City ... ... Remarks on the Passage of ... Reigns of Commodus and Severus 211-249 . Of the Successors of Severus 109 ... III Of Maximin , Philip , and Decius 112 ...
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... reign of the Asmonæan princes and pontiffs . The temper of the Jews was incapable of contenting itself with such a cold and languid assent as might satisfy the mind of a Polytheist ; and , as soon as they admitted the idea of a future ...
... reign of the Asmonæan princes and pontiffs . The temper of the Jews was incapable of contenting itself with such a cold and languid assent as might satisfy the mind of a Polytheist ; and , as soon as they admitted the idea of a future ...
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... reign upon earth till the time appointed for the last and general resurrection . So pleasing was this hope to the mind of believers that the New Jerusalem , the seat of this bliss- ful kingdom , was quickly adorned with all the gayest ...
... reign upon earth till the time appointed for the last and general resurrection . So pleasing was this hope to the mind of believers that the New Jerusalem , the seat of this bliss- ful kingdom , was quickly adorned with all the gayest ...
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... reign of Decius , the Roman church had received , in a single donation , the sum of two hundred thousand sesterces from a stranger of Pontus , who proposed to fix his residence in the capital . 1 137 These oblations , for the most part ...
... reign of Decius , the Roman church had received , in a single donation , the sum of two hundred thousand sesterces from a stranger of Pontus , who proposed to fix his residence in the capital . 1 137 These oblations , for the most part ...
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... reign of the Antonines . 173 The slow progress of the gospel in the cold climate of Gaul was extremely different from the eagerness with which it seems to have been received on the burning sands of Africa . The African Christians soon ...
... reign of the Antonines . 173 The slow progress of the gospel in the cold climate of Gaul was extremely different from the eagerness with which it seems to have been received on the burning sands of Africa . The African Christians soon ...
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