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Nor do we ever read of any attempts they made to free themselves by resistance, though (as Tertullian saith) they were in powerful numbers mingled in their Villages, and in their Cities; yea, in their Castles, and in their Armies. Yea, there is an illustrious instance of passive obedience in the Thebaean Legion, whose tenth man being executed for not offering Sacrifice to Idols, they quietly submitted to the cruelty. |
Nor do we ever read of any attempts they made to free themselves by resistance, though (as Tertullian Says) they were in powerful numbers mingled in their Villages, and in their Cities; yea, in their Castles, and in their Armies. Yea, there is an illustrious instance of passive Obedience in the Theban Legion, whose tenth man being executed for not offering Sacrifice to Idols, they quietly submitted to the cruelty. |
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