CHAPTER LIII

HOW THE BARBARIANS KINDLY RECEIVED THE CHRISTIANS

“BUT is this all? Nay, the barbarians themselves may boast even now of the contrast their conduct presents to these cruel deeds; for they received and kept in gentlest captivity those who then fled from amongst us, and secured to them not merely safety from danger, but also the free exercise of their holy religion. And even now that lasting stain remains, which the flight of the Christians, at that time driven from the Roman world, and their reception by the barbarians, have branded on the Roman name.