1.2 Emperors Arcadius and Honorius Augustuses to Apollodorus, Proconsul of Africa.
Whenever there is an action involving matters of religion, the bishops must conduct such action. But all other cases which belong to the judges ordinary3 and to the usage of the secular law must be heard in accordance with the laws.
Given on the thirteenth day before the kalends of September at Padua in the year of the consulship of the Most Noble Theodorus.—August 20, 399.
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Author: Code of Theodosius
Keywords: Theodosius, Theodosian code, Code of Theodosius, mark of the beast, spoke like a dragon, speak like a dragon, Church and State
Bible reference(s): 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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