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Title: The history of Christianity : consisting of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth : the adventures of Paul and the apostles and the most interesting events in the progress of Christianity from the earliest period to the present time
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877 Mallalieu, Willard Francis, bp., 1828-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ Paul, the Apostle, Saint Church history
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : The American Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ly noone general rule can be laid down which can be applied to allcases. They must not be sought after. If they are broughtbefore you, and convicted, let them be capitally punished ; yetwith this restriction, — that if any renounce Christianity, andevidence their sincerity by supplicating our gods, howeversuspected they may be for the past, they shall obtain pardonfor the future on their repentance. But anonymous libels inno case ought to be noticed; for the precedent would be of theworst sort, and perfectly incongruous with the maxims of mygovernment. This response of the emperor checked in some degree thepersecutions with which the Christians were menaced; but itdid not prevent their enemies from inflicting upon them, undervarious pretexts, all the injury in their power. In manyplaces the populace, and in others the magistrates, pursuedthem with obloquy and oppression; so that, while there was nogeneral and declared persecution, they were everywhere ex-posed to insult and outrage.
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THE martyrs faith. CHAPTER XL MARTYRDOM. n»e Martyrdom of Ignatius. —Death of Trajan. —Succession of Adrian.-InfldelAssaults. — Celsus. — The Apology of Quadrat. — The Martyrdom of Sym-phorose and her Sons.— Character and Death of Adrian.—Antoninus.—Conversion of Justin Martyr. —His Apology. — Marcus Aurellus.—Hostilityof the Populace. — The Martyrdom of Polycarp. T the commencement of the second century, Igna-tius was bishop or pastor of the church in Anti-och, in Syria. He had occupied the post forforty years, and had obtained a very high reputa-tion for devout character and Christian zeal. TheEmperor Trajan, who had issued orders through-out the empire, that those refusing to worship thepagan gods, and persisting in Christianity, should be put todeath, passing with his victorious army from the banks of theDanube to combat the barbarians of the East, stopped for atime at Antioch. Ignatius was brought before him, chargedwith the crime of being a Christian. Th

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