1.2 Emperor Constantine Augustus to Dracilianus.3
The privileges that have been granted in consideration of religion must benefit only the adherents of the Catholic faith.4 It is Our will, moreover, that heretics and schismatics shall not only be alien from these privileges but shall also be bound and subjected to various compulsory public services.
Posted on the kalends of September at Gerastus in the year of the seventh consulship of Constantine Augustus and the consulship of Constantius Caesar.—September 1, 326.
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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, false teaching, false teacher, 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, persecuted, Roman law
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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