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In a message dated 30/7/2003 2:27:19, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< Julitta of Caesarea (d. 303) Are hard-luck story, but a martyr? Julitta
was a rich woman of Caesarea in Cappodocia. When a non-Christian cheated
her out of her property she appealed to the magistrates, but her adversary
denounced her as a Christian and she was burned. >>
I have forgotten what the sources for this story are, but it represents a
pattern of behaviour which may have been commoner in the early church than has
been thought—i.e. pagan critics delating Christians to the authorities from
motives of personal revenge. See P. Lorraine Buck, 'The Pagan Husband in Justin, 2
Apology 2.1–20', Journal of Theological Studies, new series 53 (2002), pp.
541–6 for a note on this subject.
Graham Gould
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