All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'
Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high … - Ramsay Macmullen
Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high …
- Ramsay Macmullen
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de m… - Ramsay Macmullen
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de m…
More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions. - Ramsay Macmullen
More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings. - Ramsay Macmullen
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.
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