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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2 - Chapter XVI Part 2

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 2 - Chapter XVI Part 2

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In which the yet slender and obscure body of Christians under the reigns of early emperors often escaped severe censure, sheltered more by the ignorance and indifference of Roman authorities than by deliberate clemency, until the cruel but localised persecution under Nero brought them momentary infamy and suffering. The narrative then proceeds to display the measured governance of Pliny in the provinces, revealing a legal landscape unformed by imperial edicts and a magistrate’s cautious inquiry into a faith that had not yet been fully apprehended by the empire.
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