Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 06 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1591
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 6
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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6. Although you allege that those wars which you speak of were excited through hatred of our religion, it would not be difficult to prove, that after the name of Christ was heard in the world, not only were they not increased, but they were even in great measure diminished by the restraining of furious passions. For since we, a numerous band of men as we are, have learned from His teaching and His laws that evil ought not to be requited with evil, [3255] that it is better to suffer wrong than to inflict it, that we should rather shed our own blood than stain our hands and our conscienc…
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