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Excerpt from Persecution in the Early Church: A Chapter in the History of Renunciation Or the following pages the lecture actually delivered consisted of Chapter I 1, and of the whole of Chapter V. These sections I have printed unaltered. This will explain a few slight repetitions, as also cer tain hortatory paragraphs not strictly in keeping with an historical work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.