CLA233H1 Lecture 20: CLA233H1S.2013.Mar28.imperialism.ideological.resistance.docx
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Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?" 36jesus answered, my kingdom is not from this world. The man who gave them their name, christus, had been executed during the rule of tiberius by the procurator pontius pilatus. If they persist, i order them to be led away for execution; for, whatever the nature of their admission, i am convinced that their stubbornness and unshakeable obstinacy ought not to go unpunished. Among these i considered that i should dismiss any who denied that they were or ever had been. You have followed the right course of procedure, my dear pliny, in your examination of the cases of persons charged with being christians, for it is impossible to lay down a general rule to a fixed formula. Pliny to the emperor trajan during his tour of duty as governor of bithynia, and trajan"s reply.
