Word: bethinia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last night on the early Christians as described in the classics. He said: There are but four passages in the really classical works that mention the Christians at all. The first is in a letter of Pliny to the Emperor Trajan. Pliny was the governor of the province of Bethinia and had been much troubled by certain men possessed of a strange and criminal superstition, a belief in a certain Christus who had been crucified by Pontius Pilate. Pliny had executed all men who said that they were Christians, but he was in great doubt as to what...
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