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| How he forbade Idolatrous Worship, but honored Martyrs and the Church Festivals.
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Chapter XXIII.—How he forbade Idolatrous Worship, but honored
Martyrs and the Church Festivals.
Such were his sacred ministrations in the service of his God. At the
same time, his subjects, both civil and military, throughout the
empire, found a barrier everywhere opposed against idol worship, and
every kind of sacrifice forbidden.3322
| 3322 [This prohibition must be limited to private sacrifices. See Bk.
II., ch. 45, note.—Bag.] | A
statute was also passed, enjoining the due observance of the
Lord’s day, and transmitted to the governors of every province,
who undertook, at the emperor’s command, to respect the days
commemorative of martyrs, and duly to honor the festal seasons in the
churches:3323
| 3323 “Str. rightly translates ‘and honored the
festal days by public gatherings,’ while Val. [and
Bag.] falsely renders ‘duly honored the festival seasons
of the church.’”—Hein. | and all these intentions were
fullfilled to the emperor’s entire satisfaction.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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