104 Eusebius, HE 5.1.17-19, 37-42.
103There is evidence that the Roman bishops Pius (c. A.D. 150) and Callistus (217-222) were of servile origin.
104Eusebius, HE 5.1.17-19, 37-42.
105The Passion of S. Perpetua, ed. J. A. Robinson (Cambridge, 1891).
106Stoic humanitarianism held up the ideal of universal brotherhood in which slaves had equal rights with free persons. And we remember Epictetus. But did even Stoicism produce a Blandina or a Felicitas?
107Cf. the “new man” of Eph. 2:15, with E. F. Scott’s comment ad loc.: “Christ was the Adam of a new type of human beings, among whom nothing was to count but their common participation in his life (cf. Col. 3:11). In him as a centre the race was to be reunited” (The Epistles of Paul to the Colossians, to Philemon and to the Ephesians [London, 1930], p. 172).
108J. A. T. Robinson, The Body, p. 83.
109Tertullian, Apology 39.7.