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| Epistle of Adrian in behalf of the Christians. PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP
1916
Addressed to Minucius Fundanus. [Generally credited as genuine.]
| in behalf of the Christians.
Christians" title="186" id="viii.ii.lxix-p2.2"/>Christians" title="186" id="viii.ii.lxix-p2.3"/>I have received the
letter addressed to me by your predecessor Serenius Granianus, a most
illustrious man; and this communication I am unwilling to pass over in
silence, lest innocent persons be disturbed, and occasion be given to the
informers for practising villany. Accordingly, if the inhabitants of your
province will so far sustain this petition of theirs as to accuse the
Christians in some court of law, I do not prohibit them from doing so.
But I will not suffer them to make use of mere entreaties and outcries.
For it is far more just, if any one desires to make an accusation, that
you give judgment upon it. If, therefore, any one makes the accusation,
and furnishes proof that the said men do anything contrary to the laws,
you shall adjudge punishments in proportion to the offences. And this, by
Hercules, you shall give special heed to, that if any man shall, through
mere calumny, bring an accusation against any of these persons, you shall
award to him more severe punishments in proportion to his wickedness.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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