1. Emperors Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius Augustuses to Eutropius, Praetorian Prefect.
Those Christians who have become pagans shall be deprived of the power and right to make testaments,2 and every testament of such decedent, if there is a testament, shall be rescinded by the annulment of its foundation.3
Given on the sixth day before the nones of May at Constantinople in the year of the consulship of Syagrius and Eucherius.—May 2, 381.
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Author: Code of Theodosius
Keywords: Theodosian code, Theodosius, Code of Theodosius, mark of the beast, 666, number of the beast, spoke like a dragon, speaks like a dragon, heresy, heretic, heretical, man of sin, ban, excommunication, excommunicated, Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism, orthodoxy, buy or sell, cannot buy or sell, Church and State, banish, banishment, deportation, persecution
Bible reference(s): Romans 16:17, 1 Corinthians 11:19, 1 Corinthians 12:25, Ephesians 4:14, Galatians 1:7-9, Galatians 5:12, Galatians 5:20, Colossians 2:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:14, 2 Peter 2:1, 1 Timothy 1:3, 1 Timothy 1:10, 1 Timothy 1:20, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 6:3-5, 1 Timothy 6:20, 2 Timothy 2:16, 2 Timothy 2:17, 2 Timothy 2:18, 2 Timothy 2:23, 2 Timothy 3:5, 2 Timothy 4:3, Titus 1:13, Titus 1:9, Titus 3:9-10, 1 John 2:19, 2 John 1:7, 2 John 1:9, 2 John 1:10-11, Revelation 22:19
Source: Clyde Pharr, trans., The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions, Book XVI (Princeton Univ. Press, 1952).
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