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Please disregard -- I was sending it to my class! Awfully sorry!!
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Galya Diment wrote:
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> More from the M & M site (an encyclopedia entry):
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> A. Tacitus
> We possess at least the testimony of Tacitus (A.D. 54-119) for the
> statements that the Founder of the Christian religion, a deadly
> superstition in the eyes of the Romans, had been put to death
> by the procurator Pontius Pilate under the reign of Tiberius; that
> His religion, though suppressed for a time, broke forth again not only
> throughout Judea where it had originated, but even in Rome, the conflux
> of all the streams of wickness and shamelessness; furthermore, that
> Nero had diverted from himself the suspicion of the burning of Rome by
> charging the Christians with the crime; that these latter were not
> guilty of arson, though they deserved their fate on account of their
> universal misanthropy. Tacitus, moreover, describes some of the
> horrible torments to which Nero subjected the Christians (Ann., XV,
> xliv). The Roman writer confounds the Christians with the Jews,
> considering them as a especially abject Jewish sect.
> (Hist., V, iii, iv).
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> B. Suetonius
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> Another Roman writer who shows his acquaintance with Christ and the
> Christians is Suetonius (A.D. 75-160). It has been noted that Suetonius
> considered Christ (Chrestus) as a Roman insurgent who stirred up
> seditions under the reign of Claudius (A.D. 41 54): "Judaeos, impulsore
> Chresto, assidue tumultuantes (Claudius) Roma expulit" (Clau., xxv). In
> his life of Nero he regards that emperor as a public benefactor on
> account of his severe treatment of the Christians: "Multa
> sub eo et animadversa severe, et coercita, nec minus instituta . . . .
> afflicti Christiani, genus hominum superstitious novae et maleficae"
> (Nero, xvi).
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On Fri, 10 May 2002, Galya Diment wrote:
>
> More from the M & M site (an encyclopedia entry):
>
> A. Tacitus
> We possess at least the testimony of Tacitus (A.D. 54-119) for the
> statements that the Founder of the Christian religion, a deadly
> superstition in the eyes of the Romans, had been put to death
> by the procurator Pontius Pilate under the reign of Tiberius; that
> His religion, though suppressed for a time, broke forth again not only
> throughout Judea where it had originated, but even in Rome, the conflux
> of all the streams of wickness and shamelessness; furthermore, that
> Nero had diverted from himself the suspicion of the burning of Rome by
> charging the Christians with the crime; that these latter were not
> guilty of arson, though they deserved their fate on account of their
> universal misanthropy. Tacitus, moreover, describes some of the
> horrible torments to which Nero subjected the Christians (Ann., XV,
> xliv). The Roman writer confounds the Christians with the Jews,
> considering them as a especially abject Jewish sect.
> (Hist., V, iii, iv).
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> B. Suetonius
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> Another Roman writer who shows his acquaintance with Christ and the
> Christians is Suetonius (A.D. 75-160). It has been noted that Suetonius
> considered Christ (Chrestus) as a Roman insurgent who stirred up
> seditions under the reign of Claudius (A.D. 41 54): "Judaeos, impulsore
> Chresto, assidue tumultuantes (Claudius) Roma expulit" (Clau., xxv). In
> his life of Nero he regards that emperor as a public benefactor on
> account of his severe treatment of the Christians: "Multa
> sub eo et animadversa severe, et coercita, nec minus instituta . . . .
> afflicti Christiani, genus hominum superstitious novae et maleficae"
> (Nero, xvi).
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