1.2 Emperor Constantine Augustus to Felix, Praetorian Prefect.
If any Jew should purchase and circumcise a Christian slave or a slave of any other sect whatever, he shall not retain in slavery such circumcised person. But the person who endured such treatment shall obtain the privilege of freedom. (Etc.)
Given on the twelfth day before the kalends of November at Constantinople.—October 21, (335). Posted on the eighth day before the ides of May at Carthage in the year of the consulship of Nepotianus and Facundus.—May 8, 336.3
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Author: Code of Theodosius
Keywords: Theodosius, Theodosian code, Code of Theodosius, speak like a dragon, spoke like a dragon, Church and State, slave, slavery, servitude, antisemitic, Jew hater, anti semitism, antisemitism, Anti semitic, Anti Jewish, Anti Jew, Anti Judaic, Hatred of the Jews, Jewish persecutions, Replacement theology, Supersessionism, Christian antisemitism
Bible reference(s): Matthew 21:43, Matthew 27:25, John 16:2, Acts 7:51, Acts 13:45-46, Acts 14:2, Acts 18:6, Romans 11:25, Romans 11:28, 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16, Revelation 2:9, Revelation 3:9, Revelation 13:11-15
Source: Clyde Pharr, trans., The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions, Book XVI (Princeton Univ. Press, 1952).
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