# Of the Sixth Persecution of the Christians, Commenced under Maximin, A. D. 237.

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The sixth persecution of the Christians, writes
J. Gysius, arose under the Emperor Maximin, a
naturally cruel man, and was directed against
persons of respectability (since he was of low
origin), as well as against the Christians, but especially
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against the ministers of the word. Fortunately
for the Christians, this persecution was brief,
since he reigned but two years; and as he was a
violent enemy of the ministers of the church, the
persecution commenced on them, as the teachers
and authors, it was said, of the Christian religion;
for it was thought that if they were removed, the
common people could easily be drawn away from
it. Then, Origen, a teacher of the church, in order
to exhort the Christians to steadfastness, wrote a
book on martyrdom, dedicating it to Ambrose,
overseer of the church at Milan, and Proctotus,
learned men of that time. J. Gys., fol. 19, col. 1, 2,
from Euseb., lib. 6, cap. 20, Oros. lib. 7, cap. 19.

Touching the cause of these persecutions, the
author of the Introduction, etc., writes thus: The
heathen had such a hatred for the Christians at that
time, that, whenever an earthquake, a storm, or the
like, occurred, they laid it to the charge of the
Christians, saying that their gods were offended,
because their honor was waning on account of the
Christians; from which it is to be inferred that they
treated the Christians in an awful manner. Fol. 39,
col. 2, from Baronius, in Chron., A. D. 237,
num. 3, and A. D. 256, num. 5.



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