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HIEROCLES

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 453 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HIEROCLES  , proconsul of

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Bithynia and
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Alexandria, lived during the reign of
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Diocletian (A.D . 284-305) . He is said to have been the instigator of the fierce persecution of the Christians under
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Galerius in 303 . He was the author of a
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work (not extant) entitled Xoyoc cf tAaXilOac irpos roes Xpcvrcavous in two books, in which he endeavoured to persuade the Christians that their sacred books were full of contradictions, and that in moral
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influence and miraculous
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power
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Christ was inferior to
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Apollonius of Tyana . Our knowledge of this
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treatise is derived from Lactantius (Instil. div. v . 2) and
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Eusebius, who wrote a refutation entitled 'AvrcppnruOis irpos ra 'IEpoeXEovt .

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