II I'o come now to religion, a passion (^t the early Byzantines. The opening te.\t of the C.o(h\ Ci.i.i reads in part: W'e will that all peoplc.s who are ruled hv the moderation ot our elemencv practice that religion which the apostle Peter transmitted to the Romans.... We shall believe in the single deitv of the father and the son and the holv spirit of equal majesty and of the hol\ trinity. 1. We command that tlutse following this law are embraced with the name of C'atholic C'hristians. The others, howexer, whom we judge demented and insane hear the intamx of heretical dogma. Thex' are to he heaten xx ith vengeance, shall he struck first by dix ine revenge, then hx our own initiatixe xx hich we take fromdix ine judgement. d'his rescript of the year ;^xSo, of the Kmperors Ciratian, Wilentinian and rheodosius, gives an authentic note of early Byzantium: lo\e of God as properly recognized, hatred of heresy. But it is not a note much to he found in the Corpusl7uris Cii'ilis, ev en though the rescript is inserted at the beginning tvf lustinian's fWc. 'hhere is nt)t much about the deitv' in the prefaces of the (.Wc, Digest, or Institutes. In the bodv’ of the Digest there is not one single reference to fesus, apostles, saints, or arguments drawn fromthe fathers of the church. The word i/eu.c, 'Ciod,' appears only twelv e times, but in no conte.xt can one determine whether the god was a pagan deity or the Cdiristian (jod.'' The e.vplanation is that the Roman jurists were all pagans: Justinian's compilers may have cut out much, but thev" have not added. Likewise the Institutes, but with only one mention tvf deus, in the v erv last te.\t (;/.4.i(S.i2): Bur xvc haxe said this much about criminal actions for it to he possible for xou to have touched the subject xvith the tip of xour finger and almost xvith The texts are: D. 1.1.2; 1.8.9.3; 4.8.32.4; 12.2.3.4; 12.2.33; 24.1.5.12,14; 34.2.38.2; 35.2.1.5; 48.13.4.1; 48.13.7(6); 49.14.3P''. 8 48
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