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| That he declared God to be the Author of his Prosperity: and concerning his Rescripts.
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Chapter XXIII.—That he declared God to be the Author of his
Prosperity: and concerning his Rescripts.
And now
that, through the powerful aid of God his Saviour, all nations owned
their subjection to the emperor’s authority, he openly proclaimed
to all the name of Him to whose bounty he owed all his blessings, and
declared that He, and not himself, was the author of his past
victories. This declaration, written both in the Latin and Greek
languages, he caused to be transmitted through every province of the
empire. Now the excellence of his style of expression3180
| 3180 “The value of our narrative” is the rendering of
Molzberger. “The powerfulness of his
language.”—1709. | may be known from a perusal of his
letters themselves which were two in number; one addressed to the
churches of God; the other to the heathen population in the several
cities of the empire. The latter of these I think it well to insert
here as connected with my present subject, in order on the one hand
that a copy of this document may be recorded as matter of history, and
thus preserved to posterity, and on the other that it may serve to
confirm the truth of my present narrative. It is taken from an
authentic copy of the imperial statute in my own possession and the
signature in the emperor’s own handwriting attaches as it were
the impress of truth to the statement I have made.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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