Chapter LXVI

Chapter LXVI

Chapter LXVI.—That he also adjusted the Controversies which had arisen in Africa.

“Finding, then, that the whole of Africa was pervaded by an intolerable spirit of mad folly, through the influence of those who with heedless frivolity had presumed to rend the religion of the people into diverse sects; I was anxious to check this disorder, and could discover no other remedy equal to the occasion, except in sending some of yourselves to aid in restoring mutual harmony among the disputants, after I had removed that common enemy 3213 of mankind who had interposed his lawless sentence for the prohibition of your holy synods.


Footnotes

  1. 516:3213

    [Licinius, whose prohibition of synods is referred to in Bk. 1, ch. 51. The disputes here mentioned are those between the Catholic Christians and the Donatists, a very violent sect which sprung up in Africa after the persecution by Diocletian.—Bag.]

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