{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010472.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010472.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010472.htm","text":"Chapter XXVII.\u2014How the Persecution became the Occasion of Calamities to the Aggressors.\n\u201cFrom the causes I have described, grievous wars arose, and destructive devastations. Hence followed a scarcity of the common necessaries of life, and a crowd of consequent miseries: hence, too, the authors of these impieties have either met a disastrous death of extreme suffering, or have dragged out an ignominious existence, and confessed it to be worse than death itself, thus receiving as it were a measure of punishment proportioned to the heinousness of their crimes. 3183 For each experienced a degree of calamity according to the blind fury with which he had been led to combat, and as he thought, defeat the Divine will: so that they not only felt the pressure of the ills of this present life, but were tormented also by a most lively apprehension of punishment in the future world. 3184\nCompare Lactantius, On the deaths of the persecutors (De M. P.), and the Church History of Eusebius.\n507:3184\nLiterally \u201cbeneath the earth,\u201d referring of course to the Gr\u00e6co-Roman conception of Hades.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius.: Chapter XXVII","type":"page"}