Politics and religion in the days of Augustine by Humphrey Edward Frank 1878-

Author:Humphrey, Edward Frank, 1878- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New York
Published: 1912-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

have been used against the Catholic Church, they are subject to the same penalty. 1

By an edict of the fifth of March, 405, 2 the emperor ordered the promulgation of the edict of Unity in the other provinces. " We will that the edict of unity which our clemency had decreed for the African provinces be promulgated through the other provinces, that all may know that the one true Catholic belief in a single omnipotent God, which true belief acknowledges, must be held by all." These laws were what the orthodox had been demanding and working for. The Donatists were now legally heretics. A Donatist chronicle tells us that the persecution commenced on June the twenty-sixth. 3 The tenth council of Carthage, of the twenty-third of August, sent a synodal letter and a deputation to the emperor to thank him for having established unity at Carthage. They also decided to ask the civil judges to use their influence in the other provinces as at Carthage for the reconciliation of the Donatists with the church. 4 And on the eighth of December, 405, the emperor ordered the law to be enforced in all places by the following edict. 5 " We decree that the heretics of the Donatist superstition, no matter of what Dlace or whether they confess or be convicted in accordance

1 Cf. also the law of the same date, Cod. Theod., xvi, 6, 3. " Re-baptizantium non patimur devios errores, etc."

2 Ibid., xvi, 11, 2. "Edictum quod de imitate per Africanas regiones dementia nostra direxit, per diversa proponi volumus, ut omnibus innotescat dei omnipotentis unam et veram fidem catholicam, quam recta credulitas confitetur, esse retinendam."

8 Liber Genealogus, G. 627; Mommsen, Chronica Minora, 1, p. 196.

* Codex Can. Ecc. Af., 94; Harduin, i, 918-919; Hefele, ii, 1, 156.

5 Cod. Theod., xvi, 5, 39. " Donatistae superstitionis haereticos quo-cunque loci vel fatentes vel convictos legis tenore servato poenam debitam absque dilatione persolvere dccernimus."

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