Chapter 16. Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine
Chapter 16. Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine - Part 1
_ Chapter XVI. Conduct Towards The Christians, From Nero To Constantine
Part I
The Conduct Of The Roman Government Towards The Christians,
From The Reign Of Nero To That Of Constantine. [1a]

[Footnote 1a: The sixteenth chapter I cannot help considering as a very ingenious and specious, but very disgraceful extenuation of the cruelties perpetrated by the Roman magistrates against the Christians. It is written in the most contemptibly factious spirit of prejudice against the sufferers； it is unworthy of a philosopher and of humanity. Let the narrative of Cyprian‘s death be examined. He had to relate the murder of an innocent man of advanced age, and in a station deemed venerable by a considerable body of the provincials of Africa, put to death because he refused to sacrifice to Jupiter. Instead of pointing the

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