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vol lvii.p.

52--M.] [Footnote 56: Such a charge should not be lightly made; but it may surely be justified by the authority of St.Augustin, who thus addresses the Donatists: "Quis nostrum, quis vestrum non laudat leges ab Imperatoribus datas adversus sacrificia Paganorum?
Et certe longe ibi poera severior constituta est; illius quippe impietatis capitale supplicium est." Epist.xciii.No.10, quoted by Le Clerc, (Bibliotheque Choisie, tom.viii.p.

277,) who adds some judicious reflections on the intolerance of the victorious Christians.

* Note: Yet Augustine, with laudable inconsistency, disapproved of the forcible demolition of the temples.