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Countless other deeds were dared at that time by land and by sea, all
over the world, by the wicked against the just, for now without
disguise the enemy of God began to lay down laws against true
religion. First of all he prohibited the sons of the Galileans, for
so he tried to name the worshippers of the Saviour, from taking part
in the study of poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy, for said he, in
the words of the proverb "we are shot with shafts feathered from our
own wing," for from our own books they take arms and wage war against
us.
After this he made another edict ordering the Galileans to be expelled
from the army.
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