Identifier: historyofchristi00blac (find matches)
Title: History of the Christian church from its origin to the present time
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Blackburn, Wm. M. (William Maxwell), 1828-1898
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Walden and Stowe New York : Phillips and Hunt
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and they carried with them the doctrines of theGospel to places which would otherwise have long remained without them. V. Number of pagan persecutions. There were more than ten localand provincial, and less than ten general, persecutions. In a list of theemperors most concerned in our history the italics denote the persecutors,as usually given, those marked f the general persecutors, and the smallcapitals the most favorable emperors: D Nero, ... AVespasian,. .Domitian, . .Nekva, . . .Trajan ? . . .Hadrian, 54-6870^7981-9696-98 38-117 ii7-i3r Antoninus Pius, 138-161Marc. Aurelius, 161-180Commodus, . . 180-193 Sept. .Severus,\ . 193-211 Caracalla, , . , 212-217 Elagabalus, . . 218-222 Alex. Severus, 222-235 Maximin, . . . 235—238 The Gordians, 238-244 Philip Arab., . 244-249 Decius,^. . . . 249-251 Gallus, etc., . . 251-254 Valerian, . .Gallienus, . ,Claudius II,.Awelian, . .Tacitus, . . ,Probus, etc.,Diocletian,^ \Galeritcs, JCONSTANTIKE, 254-260260-268268-270270-275276276-284 284-3n
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CIRCUIT OF CHURCHES. 23 Chapter II. FROM ANTIOCH TO LYONS.^ Pliny the Younger was one of the noblest Romans of thenew age, when people talked happily of the good emperors.^In his charming Letters we meet with some of the best menand women of pagan society, and find sketches of a few of thenotorious scoundrels in politics. He had some belief in Provi-dence. As a lawyer in Rome, he was active in bringing to pun-ishment those consuls who robbed provinces, and informers whobecame princes among millionaires and the terror of good citizens.He was rich, liberal, and kind to the tenants and slaves on hisestates. He was no Stoic. He wrote, To be touched bygrief, to feel it, but fight against it; to make use of consola-tions, not to be above the need of them,—this is what becomesa man. He built a temple at Tifernum, and another at hisvilla near Rome. He offered to contribute largely towardsestablishing a school far up at Como, where he was born.What will this literary gentleman say of Christihistoryofchristi00blac

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