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Title: The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect; their history, theology, and literature
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Montgomery, James A. (James Alan), 1866-1949
Subjects: Samaritans
Publisher: Philadelphia J.C. Winston
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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shared the Pagan persecutions, came to the as-cendancy, we might expect the Shechemites to find respiteunder the rule of the followers of the Prince of Peace. Buta worse fate pursued them under Christian dominion thanunder Pagan. Whatever rights had been theirs, the be-quest of the ancient humanity of Rome, were now with-drawn to satisfy the persecuting spirit of triumphant Chris-tendom, which had absorbed from Paganism the lesson, op-posite to its Masters, to treat like with like, and to bruisethe broken reed, §3. FROM THE REIGN OF CONSTANTINE TO THE RISE OF ISLAM.®^ For this period we possess, in comparison with the meagrerecords of other ages, an extensive amount of informationfor the Samaritan sect. Except for the last three genera-tions of the Pagan empire, which were marked by religiouspersecutions, Rome in general had troubled herself little, ex-cept on political grounds, over the religion of her subjects. «3 Cf. especially the works of Juynboll, Griitz, and Appel, as above.
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a as U a O < T3S UNDER THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE 99 But with the ascendancy of the Christian Church, religionbecame one of the chief factors in the poHtics and history ofthe empire. Christian fanaticism at once began to exhibititself, partly in the mutual persecutions of Christian sects,partly in the persecution and legal ostracism of all who didnot loear the name of Christ. Among these the Paganswere the chief objects of the jealousy of militant Christen-dom, but the sects so nearly related to Christianity, theJews and the Samaritans, who worshipped the same OneGod, suffered the more intense spite of the Church. More-over, as the conscious successors of the Jewish Church, themalevolence of the Christians followed the traditions ofJudaism in the despite of the Samaritans, so that the lattersuffered a twofold share of persecution. Accordingly wefind many laws which, for the first time in Roman juris-prudence, name the Samaritans, while the Christian annal-ists have abundant occasion to m

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