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Chapter I.—Introduction.
world" title="188" id="viii.iii.i-p1.3"/>Romans, the things which have
recently1922
| 1922 Literally,
“both yesterday and the day before.” | happened in
your city under Urbicus,1923
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[See Grabe’s note on the conjecture of Valesius that this prefect
was Lollius Urbicus, the historian (vol. i. p. 1. and notes, p. 1).]
| and the things which are likewise being everywhere unreasonably
done by the governors, have compelled me to frame this composition for
your sakes, who are men of like passions, and brethren, though ye know it
not, and though ye be unwilling to acknowledge it on account of your
glorying in what you esteem dignities.1924
For everywhere, whoever is corrected by father, or
neighbour, or child, or friend, or brother, or husband, or wife, for a
fault, for being hard to move, for loving pleasure and being hard to urge
to what is right (except those who have been persuaded that the unjust
and intemperate shall be punished in eternal fire, but that the virtuous
and those who lived like Christ shall dwell with God in a state that is
free from suffering,—we mean, those who have become Christians),
and the evil demons, who hate us, and who keep such men as these subject
to themselves, and serving them in the capacity of judges, incite them,
as rulers actuated by evil spirits, to put us to death. But that the
cause of all that has taken place under Urbicus may become quite plain to
you, I will relate what has been done.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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