 | Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d') - 1813 - 372 pages
...city of Asia came in a body to the proconsul, and offered themselves to the slaughter, which made him cry, " O ! ye unhappy people, if ye have a mind to...halters and precipices enough to end your lives, but ye must come here for executioners." Tertul. ad Scap. c. 5. p. 11. Fleury's Manners of the Christians,... | |
 | Paul Heinrich D. freiherr von Holbach - 1813 - 358 pages
...city of Asia came in a body to the proconsul, and offered themselves to the slaughter, which made him cry ^ " O ! ye unhappy people, if ye have a mind to...halters and precipices enough to end your lives, but ye must come here lor executioners." Tertul. ad Scap. c. 5. p. 11. Fleury's Manners of the Christians,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1822 - 1008 pages
...exclaim, "O! ye unhappy people, if ye have • Ecce Homo, p. 299. t Dodswell's Dissert. Oxford, 1684. a mind to die, have ye not halters and precipices enough to end your lives, but ye must come here for executioners."* This was a general practice under the Antonini. Marcus Antoninus... | |
 | Daniel Isaac Eaton - 1827 - 222 pages
...city of Asia came in a body to the proconsul, and offered themselves to the slaughter, which made him cry, O ! ye unhappy people, if ye have a mind to die, have yc not halters and precipices enough to end your lives, but ye must come here for executioners." Marcus... | |
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Christians, instead of flying as the gospel directs, not only ran voluntarily to execution, but provoked their judges to do them that favor. Under Trajan, all the Christians in a city of Asia came in a body to the proconsul, and offered themselves to... 