They are published morecorrectly by Ruinart than by Surius and Bollandus. Theophilus immediately condemned, and the whole churchexploded, this monstrous absurdity. Julian, a heathen lord, apprehended them; and theemperor himself passing through Brescia, when neither threats nortorments could shake their constancy, commanded them to be beheaded. Austin,Brevic.
ingthe divine seed, preaching and exhorting with so great diligence, thatno secret sinner may be able to escape them. ed with a wonderful sentiment ofdevotion, and often with such an abundance of tears as excited others toweep with him. In vain had themost furious tyrants exerted the utmost cruelty, and bent the wholepower which the empire of the world put into their hands, to extirpate,if it had been possible, the Christian name. Invectives against stage-entertainmentsoccur both in those, and in the following three discourses On David, inwhich he says many excellent things also on patience, and on forgivinginjuries.
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