CHAPTER LXXV

HE SURPASSED ALL PRECEDING EMPERORS IN DEVOTION TO GOD

STANDING, as he did, alone and pre-eminent among the Roman emperors as a worshipper of God; alone as the bold proclaimer to all men of the doctrine of Christ; having alone rendered honour, as none before him had ever done, to His Church; having alone abolished utterly the superstitious worship of a plurality of gods, and discountenanced idolatry in every form: so, both during life and after death, was he accounted worthy of such honours as none can say have been attained to by any other; so that no one, whether Greek or Barbarian, nay, of the ancient Romans themselves, has ever been presented to us as worthy of comparison with him.