Pliny the Younger on Christians
One of the most important primary sources on the early church was included in the Perceus collection - namely the letters of Pliny the younger. Unfortunately, they are in Latin only, for whatever reasons. This brief letter (and Trajan's briefer reply approving the policy) is a witness to how Romans saw the Christians at the beginning of the 2nd Century, what persecution was like, and hints of the worship and Christology of the early church.
Anyway, I was wandering around http://www.earlychristianwritings.com and found a clean translation of these letters and tagged them with the Pliny datatype.
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Ken McGuire
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That's great, now it scrolls along perfectly with the Latin version!Kenneth McGuire said:tagged them with the Pliny datatype.
Looking for a suitable cover picture I found that the letter has its own wikipedia entry, illustrated with this picture of a statue of Pliny (the protective mash-wire grid will not be visible in the small book cover picture)
:Have joy in the Lord!
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