1.2 Emperors Valentinian, Theodosius, and Arcadius Augustuses to Eusignius, Praetorian Prefect.
If those persons who suppose that the right of assembly has been granted to them alone should attempt to provoke any agitation against the regulation of Our Tranquillity, as authors of sedition and as disturbers of the peace of the Church, they shall pay the penalty of high treason with their lives and blood.
Given on the tenth day before the kalends of February at Constantinople in the year of the consulship of Emperor Designate Honorius and the Most Noble Evodius.—January 23, 386.
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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, false teacher, false teachings, Roman law, 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, persecution, schism, schismatic, schisms, treason, heretick
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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