The Apocalypse of StJohn, the Greek text; with introduction, notes and indices . tate publicased in saevitiam unius absumerentur. Suet. Nero 16 multa subeo et animadversa severe et suppliciis Christiani,genus hominum superstitionis novae ac maleficae. It is evident that Tacitus, who certainly holds no brief forthe Christian faith, represents Nero as the real author of theoutrage. It took the form of a police measure, as Suetonius says,but in the first instance it was simply a device for screeninghis own infamy. Christians already had a bad name with theRoman populace, but n
The Apocalypse of StJohn, the Greek text; with introduction, notes and indices . tate publicased in saevitiam unius absumerentur. Suet. Nero 16 multa subeo et animadversa severe et suppliciis Christiani,genus hominum superstitionis novae ac maleficae. It is evident that Tacitus, who certainly holds no brief forthe Christian faith, represents Nero as the real author of theoutrage. It took the form of a police measure, as Suetonius says,but in the first instance it was simply a device for screeninghis own infamy. Christians already had a bad name with theRoman populace, but no attack would have been made upon theirlives had not Nero sacrificed them to save himself. When he pro-ceeded to offer the use of the Vatican Gardens for the executions 1 How little disposed the Church was 2 On the trustworthiness of Tacitus to make difficulties on her part may be see Lightfoot, Ignatius, i. pp. 9 f., 725. gathered () from St Lukes readiness 3 Either their Christian Faith or then to use the title ???????? (Acts xxv. 21, 25). guilt as a bust in the British Museum. ANTICHRIST IN THE PROVINCE OF ASIA lxxix and to mix with the spectators, even the Roman mob recognizedthe brutality (saevitiam) of his conduct. 6. Even if Nero had desired to abandon the policy of per-secution, it would have been difficult for him to do so. The wordsof Suetonius suggest that notwithstanding the reaction broughtabout by the Emperors callousness, repressive measures continuedin force. Severus Sulpicius, who wrote in the fourth century, maybe confusing later times with those of Nero when he writes(chron. ii. 29) in reference to the latter: post etiam datis legibusreligio vetabatur, palamque edictis propositis Christianum essenon licebat1, but he is certainly right in adding with regard tothe atrocities of 64, hoc initio in Christianos saeviri coeptum;and, as Lightfoot points out, when once persecution had begun theRoman Jews, with Poppaea Sabina at their back
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