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| Concerning Constantine's Pious Father, and the Persecutors Diocletian and Maximian.
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Chapter XLIX.—Concerning Constantine’s Pious Father, and
the Persecutors Diocletian and Maximian.
“The former emperors I have been accustomed to regard as
those with whom I could have no sympathy,3197
| 3197 The word means “having no share with,” and sometimes
“disinherited.” It may perhaps mean, “I have been
accustomed to think of the former emperors as having been deprived of
their possessions on account,” &c. | on account of the savage cruelty of
their character. Indeed, my father was the only one who uniformly
practiced the duties of humanity, and with admirable piety called for
the blessing of God the Father on all his actions, but the rest,
unsound in mind, were more zealous of cruel than gentle measures; and
this disposition they indulged without restraint, and thus persecuted
the true doctrine during the whole period of their reign. Nay, so
violent did their malicious fury become, that in the midst of a
profound peace, as regards both the religious and ordinary interests of
men, they kindled, as it were, the flames of a civil war.3198
| 3198 [The persecution of the Christians, with its attendant horrors,
being the act, not of foreign enemies, but of their countrymen and
fellow-citizens.—Bag.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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