ISBN: 9781458867575

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1878. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. Condition of the Christians under Caracalla.--Heliogabalns.--Alexander Severus.--Maximinus.--Fierce Persecution under Decius.-- Corruption of the Church described by Cyprian His Epistles.-- Origen.--Interval of Tranquillity.--Deaths of Origen and Cyprian. --Advance of the Gospel.--Paul of Samosata.--Increased Prosperity of the Christians Corruption in the Church.--Diocletian Persecution.--Improvement and Advance of the Church.--Final Triumph under Constantine. Aftee the sufferings of the Christians under Severus, which Gibbon describes as an accidental tempest, they enjoyed, he tells us, a calm of thirty-eight years 1--a period which would carry us to A. D. 249, or the beginning of the reign of Decius. This, however, requires qualification. Probably the persecution of the previous reign did not cease immediately on the accession of Caracalla, the son of Severus. Tertullian''s Address to Scapula, a President of Africa, bears clear evidence of having been written at any rate, after the death of Severus ;2 and I will add (as it contains allusions to the destruction of Byzantium, A.d. 196; to certain proceedings of Cincius Severus, a magistrate, who was executed A.d. 198 ;3 and to an eclipse of the sun, thought to be the one A.d. 210: all of them incidents that occurred during the reign of Severus), evidence of having been written shortly after the death of that prince; or, in other words, in the reign of Caracalla.4 And yet it appears from this Treatise, that persecution was then prevailing in Africa; the very object of this Treatise being to reduce it. 1 Gibbon, ii. p. 45. 2 Tertullian, Ad Scapulam, SS 4. .ibid. SS 8. 4 See Bishop Kaye''s Tertullian, p. 56. However, on the whole, this prince does not seem to have been unfriend... John James Blunt, Books, History, The Christian Church During the First Three Centuries Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1458867579

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2012, ISBN: 1458867579

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2012, ISBN: 1458867579

[EAN: 9781458867575], Neubuch, [PU: GENERAL BOOKS 01/01/2012], New print on demand book. Shipped from US. This item is printed on demand.