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their_o maintainer_n with_o punishment_n conventicle_n the_o depose_n of_o dissent_v bishop_n and_o which_o seem_v more_o terrible_a than_o any_o thing_n that_o we_o find_v in_o his_o successor_n the_o 21._o the_o socrates_n l._n 1._o c._n 6._o constantine_n to_o the_o bishop_n and_o people_n for_o as_o soon_o as_o he_o be_v take_v our_o pleasure_n be_v that_o his_o head_n be_v strike_v off_o his_o shoulder_n sozom._n l._n 1._o c._n 21._o penalty_n of_o death_n threaten_v to_o those_o that_o shall_v conceal_v any_o of_o arrius_n book_n and_o not_o deliver_v they_o up_o to_o be_v public_o burn_v but_o there_o be_v nothing_o in_o all_o this_o that_o do_v oblige_v the_o generality_n of_o the_o arrian_n to_o church_n communion_n the_o law_n of_o theodosius_n be_v indeed_o something_o more_o severe_a and_o of_o more_o force_n for_o a_o general_a conformity_n deprivation_n conformity_n cod._n justinian_n lib._n 1._o de_fw-la summa_fw-la trinitat_fw-la theodos_fw-la edict_n ad_fw-la pop_n 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indeed_o tell_v we_o that_o 20._o socrat._v l._n 5._o c._n 2._o 4._o 20._o as_o gratian_n before_o he_o have_v grant_v a_o general_a toleration_n so_o theodosius_n constrain_v none_o of_o the_o sect_n to_o be_v of_o his_o communion_n but_o give_v they_o the_o free_a exercise_n of_o their_o religion_n in_o public_a without_o the_o wall_n of_o the_o city_n but_o sozomen_n lib._n 7._o cap._n 4_o and_o 5._o and_o theodor._n 5._o 15._o assert_n the_o quite_o contrary_a of_o theodosius_n that_o he_o make_v decree_n for_o punish_v the_o arrian_n with_o the_o great_a severity_n to_o the_o same_o purpose_n philostorgius_n l._n 9_o c._n 19_o if_o indeed_o we_o come_v narrow_o to_o search_v into_o the_o law_n of_o theodosius_n arcadius_n and_o tentaverint_fw-la and_o honorius_n ad_fw-la heraclian_n commit_v africâ_fw-la an._n 411._o sciant_fw-la omnes_fw-la sanctae_fw-la legis_fw-la inimici_fw-la plectendos_fw-la se_fw-la poenâ_fw-la &_o proscriptionis_fw-la &_o sanguinis_fw-la si_fw-la 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