Theonas of Alexandria, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI — Translator's Biographical Notice (1885)
“ But the whole circumstances suit Diocletian best. [3] Some infer from the diction of the epistle, as we have it, that it is a translation from a Greek original.Footnotes ↑ Hist. Eccl., vii. 32.↑ Præpositus cubiculariorum.↑ See Neander’s Church History, vol. i. p. 197 (Bohn) . [Christians began to be preferred for their probity. Diocletian’s reign at first gave the Church a long peace (see vol. iv. p. 126) of well-nigh ten years.] ”
