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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXVII: Civil Wars, Reign Of Theodosius
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5) relate the evangelical words and actions of Damophilus without a word of approbation.

He considered, says Socrates, that it is difficult to resist the powerful, but it was easy, and would have been profitable, to submit.] [Footnote 38: See Gregory Nazianzen, tom.ii.de Vita sua, p.

21, 22.

For the sake of posterity, the bishop of Constantinople records a stupendous prodigy.

In the month of November, it was a cloudy morning, but the sun broke forth when the procession entered the church.] [Footnote 39: Of the three ecclesiastical historians, Theodoret alone (l.v.c.


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