# The First Persecution of the Christians, under Nero, Anno 66. · Page 2 of 2

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Thus Tacitus, a Roman himself, has sufficiently
confessed, in spite of himself, as J. Gysius writes,
that the Christians were innocent of the burning of
Rome, but that they notwithstanding had to suffer
on account of their name.

Who the great multitudes were, that perished in
those awful persecutions, confessing the name of
Christ even unto death, is not stated in the histories
of the fathers; however, we shall content ourselves
therewith, that God remembers them, and that their
names are written in the Book of Life. Nevertheless,
we meet with some, though but few, names of
such who suffered in that persecution in the reign of
Nero, and sealed the truth of Christ with their
blood and death; of these we shall speak in the
proper place.

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