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305 AD (search for this): entry hierocles-bio-8
Hierocles 4. A Roman proconsul at first of Bithynia, and afterwards at Alexandria, in the time of Diocletian, A. D. 284-305. Works It is said that this emperor was instigated to his persecution of the Christians, in A. D. 302, mainly by Hierocles, who was a man of great philosophical acquirements, and exerted all his powers to suppress the Christians and their religion, and raise the polytheistic notions of the Pagans by attributing to them a profound meaning, which had only been misunderstood and mistaken by the vulgar. (Lactant. Instit. Div. 5.2, de Mort. Persecut. 16.) Work against the Christians (*lo/goi filalh/qeis pro\s tou\s *Xristianou/s） With this object in view, he published a work against the Christians, in which he attempted to point out contradictions in the Scriptures in the historical as well as in the doctrinal portions. It bore the title *lo/goi filalh/qeis pro\s tou\s *Xristianou/s, and consisted of two books the work itself is lost, but we may still form an i
302 AD (search for this): entry hierocles-bio-8
Hierocles 4. A Roman proconsul at first of Bithynia, and afterwards at Alexandria, in the time of Diocletian, A. D. 284-305. Works It is said that this emperor was instigated to his persecution of the Christians, in A. D. 302, mainly by Hierocles, who was a man of great philosophical acquirements, and exerted all his powers to suppress the Christians and their religion, and raise the polytheistic notions of the Pagans by attributing to them a profound meaning, which had only been misunderstood and mistaken by the vulgar. (Lactant. Instit. Div. 5.2, de Mort. Persecut. 16.) Work against the Christians (*lo/goi filalh/qeis pro\s tou\s *Xristianou/s） With this object in view, he published a work against the Christians, in which he attempted to point out contradictions in the Scriptures in the historical as well as in the doctrinal portions. It bore the title *lo/goi filalh/qeis pro\s tou\s *Xristianou/s, and consisted of two books the work itself is lost, but we may still form an i
284 AD (search for this): entry hierocles-bio-8
Hierocles 4. A Roman proconsul at first of Bithynia, and afterwards at Alexandria, in the time of Diocletian, A. D. 284-305. Works It is said that this emperor was instigated to his persecution of the Christians, in A. D. 302, mainly by Hierocles, who was a man of great philosophical acquirements, and exerted all his powers to suppress the Christians and their religion, and raise the polytheistic notions of the Pagans by attributing to them a profound meaning, which had only been misunderstood and mistaken by the vulgar. (Lactant. Instit. Div. 5.2, de Mort. Persecut. 16.) Work against the Christians (*lo/goi filalh/qeis pro\s tou\s *Xristianou/s） With this object in view, he published a work against the Christians, in which he attempted to point out contradictions in the Scriptures in the historical as well as in the doctrinal portions. It bore the title *lo/goi filalh/qeis pro\s tou\s *Xristianou/s, and consisted of two books the work itself is lost, but we may still form an i