[235] 2 Thessal., iii, 15. Cf. Galat., iii, 1, 3.
[236] Polycarp, Epist. § 7, in The Apostolic Fathers (ed. J. B. Lightfoot, 1891), pp. 171, 179.
[237] ‘Ad officium haereticos compelli, non illici dignum est. Duritia vincenda, non suadenda.’ Tertullian, Opera omnia (ed. Migne, Patrologia latina), vol. ii, col. 125.
[238] Lactantius, Divin. Instit., lib. v, cap. 20 (ed. Migne), vol. i, p. 615.
[239] Tertullian, Opera omnia, vol. i, col. 699. Liber ad Scapulam, cap. 2.
[240] See De Cauzons, op. cit., vol. i, p. 150.
[241] Ibid., p. 154.
[242] See Philippe à Limborch, History of the Inquisition (trans. S. Chandler, London, 1731), vol. i, p. 8; L. Tanon, Histoire des Tribunaux de l’Inquisition en France (Paris, 1893), pp. 127-33; De Cauzons, vol. i, pp. 163-8; Cod. Theod., i, xvi, leges 3, 8, 12, 30, 33, 34, 35; C. Moeller in Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique (Louvain, 1913), vol. xiv, pp. 728-9, Les bûchers et les autos-da-fé depuis le moyen âge.
[243] The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom (Oxford ed., Pusey), Homily xlvi, on Matt. xiii, pp. 630 et seq.
[244] Letter 82 to Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (ed. P. Schaff), 2nd series, vol. vi, pp. 170 et seq. See Limborch (Chandler’s ed.), pp. 29-30. It has been averred that St. Jerome was in favour of the death penalty, on the score of Epist. 109 ad Ripar. See Lea, vol. i, pp. 214-15, and rejoinder of H. Maillet, L’Église et la répression sanglante de l’hérésie (1909), p. 15.