The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records
The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records
Rawlinson
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9 and the images of the gods, and at the same time reviled the name of Christ. They declared that the whole of their guilt or their error was, that they were accustomed to meet on a stated day before it was light, and to sing in concert a hymn of praise to Christ, as God, and to bind themselves by an oath, not for the perpetration of any wickedness, but that they woidd not commit any theft, robbery, or adultery, nor vio- late their word, nor refuse, when called upon, to restore any thing ommitt...cd to their trust. After this they were accustomed to separate, and then to reassemble to eat in common a harmless meal. Even this, however, they ceased to do, after my edict, in which, agreeably to your commands, I forbade the meeting of secret assemblies. After hearing this, I thought it the more necessary to endeavor to find out the truth, by put- ting to the torture two female slaves, who were called ' deaconesses. ' But I could discover nothing but a perverse and extravagant supersti- 33 386 NOTES.
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