The Early Persecutions of the Christians, Volume 55, Issue 2 |
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A. C. McGiffert accused Acta Allard Apol Apology apostles Asia Minor Aube Bithynia Callewaert century chapter charge chrétiens Chris Christ Christenverfolgungen Christians Chronicon Church History Clement Clement of Rome confession crime d'hist Dio Cassius Domitian Domitilla eccl edict emperor Epistle Eusebius evidence fact Flavia Domitilla Flavius Clemens Fundanus Granianus Guignebert Hadrian Hardy Harnack Hist Ibid Ignatius Jerome Jewish Jews Justin Klette Lactantius Leipzig letter Lightfoot Linsenmayer majestas martyrdom martyrs Melito Mommsen Nero Neronian Orosius Paul persecution persecutor Peter Pliny Pliny's police Polycarp probably province punished ques question quoted in pt Ramsay refer reign religio licita religion rescript of Trajan röm Rome says Schiller sect sources statement Suetonius suffered Sulpicius Severus Tacitus Tert Tertullian Tertulliani Apologeticum tians tion torture tradition Trajan trial Vespasian Vide pt worship writer δὲ ἐπὶ καὶ τῆς τὸ τὸν τῶν
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Page 160 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them : and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God...
Page 159 - And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Page 66 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Page 146 - Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed ; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
Page 146 - Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Page 159 - And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ...
Page 159 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held ; and they cried with a loud voice, saying ; How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 146 - For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in other men's matters: but if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.
Page 159 - My lord, thou knowest, and he said to me, These are they which come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 178 - Adfirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire carmenque Christo quasi deo dicere secum invicem seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent.