{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010609.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010609.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010609.htm","text":"Chapter XXIII.\u2014How he forbade Idolatrous Worship, but honored Martyrs and the Church Festivals.\nSuch were his sacred ministrations in the service of his God. At the same time, his subjects, both civil and military, throughout the empire, found a barrier everywhere opposed against idol worship, and every kind of sacrifice forbidden. 3322 A statute was also passed, enjoining the due observance of the Lord\u2019s day, and transmitted to the governors of every province, who undertook, at the emperor\u2019s command, to respect the days commemorative of martyrs, and duly to honor the festal seasons in the churches: 3323 and all these intentions were fullfilled to the emperor\u2019s entire satisfaction.\n[This prohibition must be limited to private sacrifices. See Bk. II., ch. 45, note.\u2014Bag.]\n545:3323\n\u201cStr. rightly translates \u2018and honored the festal days by public gatherings,\u2019 while Val. [and Bag.] falsely renders \u2018duly honored the festival seasons of the church.\u2019\u201d\u2014Hein.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius.: Chapter XXIII","type":"page"}