Through Five Hundred Years: A Popular History of the Moravian Church; Beginning With the Story of the Ancient Unitas Fratrum (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Through Five Hundred Years: A Popular History of the Moravian Church; Beginning With the Story of the Ancient Unitas FratrumTacitus tells us also how Nero, accused of having set fire to the city of Rome, turned aside the anger of the people by saying that the fires had been started by the Christians. A vast multitude were convicted, he writes.In their deaths they were made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs or nailed to crosses or set fire to and burned to serve as lights at night. Nero offered his own gardens for this exhibition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.