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Section: 3A - Civic and Military.

Number of quotes: 8


Augustine, NPNF1 Vol. 2, St. Augustine’s City of God and Christian Doctrine
Edited by Philip Schaff
Book ID: 653 Page: 15

Section: 3A

However, there are some exceptions made by the divine authority to its own law, that men may not be put to death.  These exceptions are of two kinds, being justified either by a general law, or by a special commission granted for a time to some individual.  And in this latter case, he to whom authority is delegated, and who is but the sword in the hand of him who uses it, is not himself responsible for the death he deals.  And, accordingly, they who have waged war in obedience to the divine command, or in conformity with His laws, have represented in their persons the public justice or the wisdom of government, and in this capacity have put to death wicked men; such persons have by no means violated the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”

PJ book footnote reference: Augustine, The City of God, I.21.

Quote ID: 9429

Time Periods: ?


Augustine, NPNF1 Vol. 2, St. Augustine’s City of God and Christian Doctrine
Edited by Philip Schaff
Book ID: 653 Page: 17

Section: 3A

The soldier who has slain a man in obedience to the authority under which he is lawfully commissioned is not accused of murder by any law of his state; nay, if he has not slain him, it is then he is accused of treason to the state, and of despising the law.  But if he has been acting on his own authority, and at his own impulse, he has in this case incurred the crime of shedding human blood.

PJ book footnote reference: Augustine, The City of God, I.26.

Quote ID: 9430

Time Periods: ?


Caesar and Christ: The Story of Civilization
Will Durant
Book ID: 43 Page: 657

Section: 3A,3B,4B

[Used this part]. In the interval between the Decian and the Diocletian persecution the Church had become the richest religious organization in the Empire, and had moderated its attacks upon wealthy. Cyprian complained that his parishioners were mad about money, that Christian women painted their faces, that bishops held lucrative offices of state, made fortunes, lent money at usurious interest, and denied their faith at the first sign of danger. {41} Eusebius mourned that priests quarreled violently in their competition for ecclesiastical preferment. {42}

Quote ID: 945

Time Periods: 34


Caesars & Saints: The Rise of the Christian State, A.D. 180-313
Stewart Perowne
Book ID: 44 Page: 64

Section: 1A,3A,3A2

“for a society which depends for its existence on obedience, nothing can be more wicked than choice.”

Quote ID: 986

Time Periods: 14567


Clement of Alexandria, ANF Vol. 2, Fathers of the Second Century
Edited by Philip Schaff
Book ID: 665 Page: 420

Section: 3A,4B

Further, manliness is to be assumed in order to produce confidence and forbearance, so as “to him that strikes on the one cheek, to give to him the other; and to him that takes away the cloak, to yield to him the coat also,” strongly restraining anger. For we do not train our women like Amazons to manliness in war; since we wish the men even to be peaceable.

PJ footnote: Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, IV.viii.

Quote ID: 9497

Time Periods: 2


Climax of Rome, The
Michael Grant
Book ID: 204 Page: 236

Section: 3A,3B

To encourage this repressive action, Maximinus Daia obtained and circulated confessions from prostitutes that they had taken part in Christian orgies. He also directed that spurious anti-Christian Acts of Pilate should be included in schools curricula. Executions took place, but they were few, for Maximinus preferred tortures to death-penalties, in order to improve his statistics of apostasy: the obstinate were blinded in one eye and had one leg ham-strung, and were then sent to mines and quarries. But what interested Daia more than such penal measures was the positive establishment of a pagan organisation which would rival and outdo its efficient Christian counterpart. And so he created an elaborate, homogeneous, pagan ecclesiastical system with its own priestly hierarchy.

While this was happening in the eastern provinces, Constantine defeated Maxentius at the battle of the Milvian Bridge outside Rome, and became the sole master of the west (312). Constantine was in the midst of his determined but rather confused transition from Sun-worship to the Christian faith (p. 180).

PJ: Used only first sentence so far.

Quote ID: 4770

Time Periods: 34


Constantine and Eusebius
Timothy D. Barnes
Book ID: 64 Page: 145

Section: 3A,3B,4B

Once the Church enjoyed toleration, it was natural that it should copy all

other organizations in the Roman Empire in regarding the emperor, simply because he was emperor, as patron, protector, and arbiter. {164} For the Christians of the third century there was no incongruity in inviting a pagan emperor to intervene in ecclesiastical affairs.

[Footnote 164] F. Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (London, 1977), 551 ff.

Quote ID: 1589

Time Periods: 3


Legacy of Greece, The
Edited by R. W. Livingstone
Book ID: 469 Page: 44/45

Section: 3A,4B

After the second century the comparison of the Christians to modern revolutionists becomes too absurd for discussion. There is a good deal of rhetorical declamation about riches and poverty in the Christian Fathers; but unfortunately the Church seems to have done very little to protest against the crying economic injustices of the fourth and fifth centuries. From first to last there was nothing of the ‘Spartacus’ movement about the Catholic Church. As soon as the persecutions ceased, the bishops took their place naturally among the nobility.

Quote ID: 9040

Time Periods: 347



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