Note 037 Socrates (1. v. c. 7) and Sozomen (1. vii. c. S) relate the evangelical words and actions of Damophilus without a word of approbation. He considered, says Socrates, that it is difficult to resist the powerful; but it was easy, and would have been profitable, to submit.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 27