 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Allen Rogers Benham - 1905 - 176 pagine
...they cursed the name of Christ, which, it said, those 1 Compare the case of the Apostle Paul. — EDS. who are really Christians cannot be induced to do....was to abstain from theft, robbery, adultery, and breach of faith, and not to deny trust money placed in their keeping when called upon to deliver it.... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - 296 pagine
...had been but were so no longer, some of them having recanted many years before, and more than one as long as twenty years back. They all worshiped your...recite a hymn among themselves to Christ, as though he was a god. They added, that so far from binding themselves by oath to commit any crime, their oath... | |
 | Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - 316 pagine
...had been but were so no longer, some of them having recanted many years before, and more than one as long as twenty years back. They all worshiped your...recite a hymn among themselves to Christ, as though he was a god. They added, that so far from binding themselves by oath to commit any crime, their oath... | |
 | William Stearns Davis - 1913 - 440 pagine
...declared their guilt or error was simply this — on a fixed day they used to meet before dawn and recite a hymn among themselves to Christ, as though he were a god. So far from binding themselves by oath to commit any crime, they swore to keep from theft, robbery,... | |
 | Beresford James Kidd - 1920 - 330 pagine
...They all worshipped your image and the statues of the deities, and cursed the name of Christ. [§ 7] But they declared that the sum of their guilt or their...adultery, and from breach of faith, and not to deny trust-money placed in their keeping when called upon to deliver it. When this ceremony was concluded,... | |
 | Ramsay MacMullen, Eugene Lane - 1992 - 316 pagine
...having recanted many years before, and more than one so long as twenty years back. They all worshipped your image and the statues of the deities, and cursed...called upon to deliver it. When this ceremony was completed, it had been their custom to depart and meet again to take food, but it was of no special... | |
 | Kenneth John Atchity, Rosemary McKenna - 1998 - 488 pagine
...Others, whose names were given me by an informer, first said that they were Christians and afterward denied it, declaring that they had been but were so...called upon to deliver it. When this ceremony was coneluded, it had been their custom to depart and meet again to take food, but it was of no special... | |
 | Ruth C. Duck, Patricia Wilson-Kastner - 1999 - 244 pagine
...1 12 CE, Pliny, a Roman official, wrote Emperor Trajan that "on an appointed day, they [Christians] had been accustomed to meet before daybreak, and to recite a hymn antiphonally to Christ, as to a god."1 Prayers and hymns addressed to Christ in this early period were... | |
 | Charles P. Price Louis Weil - 1979 - 260 pagine
...description of a Christian service of worship as reported to him by a Christian defector. ... on an appointed day they had been accustomed to meet before daybreak, and to recite a hymn antiphonally to Christ as a god, and to bind themselves by an oath [the Latin word is sucramcntum],... | |
 | David Noel Freedman, Michael J. McClymond - 2001 - 720 pagine
...Christians] declared that the sum of their guilt or error had amounted only to this, that on an appointed day they had been accustomed to meet before daybreak, and to recite a hymn antiphonally to Christ, as to a god." Pliny goes on to say that the Christians made it their practice... | |
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But they declared that the sum of their guilt or their error only amounted to this, that on a stated day they had been accustomed to meet before daybreak and to recite a hymn among themselves to Christ, as though he were a god, and that so far from binding... 
