Theodosian Code: Title 1: The Catholic Faith (De Fide Catholica)

1. Emperors Valentinian and Valens Augustuses to Symmachus, Prefect of the City.

If any judge2 or apparitor should appoint men of the Christian religion as custodians of temples, he shall know that neither his life nor his fortunes will be spared.

Given on the fifteenth day before the kalends of December at Milan in the year of the consulship of Valentinian and Valens Augustuses.November 17, 365;3 364.

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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, 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

Bible reference(s): Mat 18:17, 2Th 2:3, Rev 13, Rev 17:1-5

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

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