Various Church Fathers
How the Enactments of Constantine were carried into Effect.
The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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Chapter XLIII.—How the Enactments of Constantine were carried into Effect.
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Such were the injunctions contained in the first letter which the emperor addressed to us. And the provisions of this enactment were speedily carried into effect, everything being conducted in a manner quite different from the atrocities which had but lately been daringly perpetrated during the cruel ascendancy of the tyrants. Those persons also who were legally entitled to it, received the benefit of the emperor’s liberality.
Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf201.division.iv.en.