# Paul, The Apostle Of Christ, Sorely Persecuted, And Finally Beheaded, At Rome, Under The Emperor Nero, A. D. 69. · Page 5 of 5

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According to ancient records he was then beheaded
at the command of Nero, outside of Rome,
on the road that leads to Ostia, called Via Ostiensis,
where the Romans used to have their place of execution,
in the last year of Nero, or about A. D. 69.
Joh. Gys. in the History of the Martyrs, from Joseph
Scaliger, about Paul. Egesipp. Hist. Destruc.
Jerusal., lib. 3, cap. 2. Konst-tooneel van veertig
heerlijke afbeeldingen Christi en sijner Apostelen,
printed Anno 1609; about the life of Paul. Itinerarium
Sacræ Scripturæ, per H. Bunting, translated
into the Dutch by Matthias Hazard; printed Anno
1642, in the Travels of Paul, page 162. col. 1.

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