Saksagan
Christ also subsists in His human nature
St. Emperor Justinian:
DIALOGUE WITH PAUL OF NISIBIS
Translated by Dr. Jeffrey Macdonald, 1998.
Extract of the Discussion which the Emperor Justinian had with Paul the Bishop...
Paul of Nisibis is further suggested
The doctrinal positions ascribed to Justinian in the Dialogue are largely consistent with those found in his other writings and can be derived from...
Constantine seized Dacius
Galerius reached for a scroll lying on a small table beside him and handed it to Constantine. “Here are your orders. They authorize you...
Euphrates with King Tiridates
He read carefully the scroll Constantine handed him, then rolled it up and tied it with the purple ribbon identifying it as an imperial...
With both Constantius
“Looking ahead to his seventeenth birthday, Augustus and the beginning of his military training.”
Galerius looked surprised. “How old is he now?”
“Nearly eleven, and well...
Comparison to the new officials
The Emperor was always very careful to choose for his agents men who were truly of all people the worst scoundrels; and he had...
Pillaging the country
Also everywhere else in the Roman Empire Justinian did the same. Picking out the worst scoundrels he could find, he sold them the offices...
Junilus completed the measure
When Junilus completed the measure of his life, Constantine was appointed Quaestor: a man not unacquainted with law, but exceeding young, and without actual...
No more killing on pain of punishment
“No more killing!” he ordered. ‘The prophecy has been fulfilled! No more killing lest we offend the god.”
“Carry the order to the troops ahead,”...
Diocletian showed no mercy to the prostrate city
With missiles raining upon it night and day even Alexandria could not hold out forever against the might of Rome. After some eight months...
