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Church father Tertullian wrote: "We read the lives of the Cæsars: At Rome Nero was the first who stained with blood the rising faith" [17] Mary Ellen Snodgrass notes that Tertullian in this passage "used Suetonius as a source by quoting Lives of the Caesars as proof that Nero was the first Roman emperor to murder Christians", but cites not a specific passage in Suetonius's Lives as Tertullian ...
A 1540 copy of Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius . The Roman historian Suetonius (c. 69 – after 122 CE) made references to early Christians and their leader in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars (written 121 CE). [74] [79] [80] [81] The references appear in Claudius 25 and Nero 16 which describe the lives of Roman Emperors Claudius ...
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs sweːˈtoːniʊs traŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs]), commonly referred to as Suetonius (/ s w ɪ ˈ t oʊ n i ə s / swih-TOH-nee-əs; c. AD 69 – after AD 122), [2] was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
Whatever the original wording of Tacitus, another ancient source about the Neronian persecution, by Suetonius, apparently speaks of "Christians": "In Suetonius' Nero 16.2, ' christiani ', however, seems to be the original reading." [22]
Suetonius on Christians; T. Tacitus on Jesus This page was last edited on 29 June 2023, at 21:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
There are Christian sources on the person of Jesus (the letters of Paul and the Gospels) and there are also Jewish and Roman sources (e.g. Josephus, Suetonius, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger) that mention Jesus, [2] [46] [47] [48] and there are also many apocryphal texts that are examples of the wide variety of writings from early Christianity.
Christian asceticism, however, developed a strong feeling against secular studies. As early as the fourth century Martin of Tours finds that men have better things to do than study. There are lettered monks at Lérins , but their scholarship is a relic of their early education, not acquired after their monastic profession.
The passage implies that the Christians may have been guilty of setting fire to Rome, another argument against veracity, for Tacitus was attempting to lay the blame of the fire on Nero by aspersion. [66] Another ancient writer, Suetonius, mentions Christians being harmed during this period by Nero, but there is no connection made with the fire ...