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Nero’s Scapegoats

April 20, 2010 in Christian History
Tags: Christians, Nero, Rome, Tacitus

Today’s reading comes from the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56-117), who recorded a persecution of early Christians in Annals 15.41. In July, 64, a fire broke out in the city of Rome while the Emperor Nero was out of the city. The fire burned for five days and damaged a majority of the city [...]

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