Sirmondian Constitutions: Title 12: Against Heretics and Pagans

Emperors Honorius and Theodosius Augustuses to Curtius, Praetorian Prefect.

The profane spirits of the heretics and the superstition of the pagans ought to have been corrected by the solicitude alone of those religious men, the priests of God, as they note such crimes, by their sedulous admonitions and by their authoritative teaching. Nevertheless the regulations of Our laws have not become ineffective, which also by the terror of punishment that has been proposed shall lead back to the worship of Almighty God those persons who go astray, and which shall prepare the ignorant also for divine service. But without doubt the very force of evil, which confuses human and divine affairs alike, has driven very many persons, who have been deceived by wicked persuasions, to a present as well as to a future destruction, and it has destroyed the lives of the unfortunate at the same time for God and for Us, in that it has delivered such persons to the laws here and it compels them to bear the judgment there.

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Author: Code of Theodosius

Keywords: Theodosius, Theodosian code, Code of Theodosius, spoke like a dragon, speak like a dragon, Church and State, heresy, heretic, heretical, excommunication, excommunicated, Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism, banish, banishment, deportation, deport, Roman law, Sirmondian Constitutions, Sirmondian, Donatists, Manichaeans, Donatism, Sect, False teaching, False teacher, Doctrinal error, False doctrine, Faction

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 13:11-15

Source: Clyde Pharr, trans., The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions, Sirmondian Constitutions (Princeton Univ. Press, 1952).

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