“the Christians to the lion!”
the Christians to the lion!
Tertullian · The Apology (Apologeticus) · ANF III, Apology, Chapter XL
The mob’s cry, quoted by Tertullian to mock it — his complaint is that one man is thrown to one beast, so the shout is as innumerate as it is cruel. Blaming Christians for drought, flood and famine is the charge the whole chapter answers.
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Read in Thelwall, ANF vol. 3 (1885) · S. Thelwall
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