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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 861 kind of return this tormentor will receive at the hands of divine justice, for his cruelties against the saints, and after rioting to such extent against the confessors of Christ, is easy to conjecture from the preludes to these judgments here. For immediately after his crimes against Pamphilus, whilst he held the govern ment, the divine justice suddenly overtook him, thus. That man whom we but yesterday saw judging on a lofty seat, and sur rounded by a guard of soldiers, and ruling over all Palestine, and the associate, and favourite, and guest of the tyrant, stripped in a single night, and divested of all his honours, and covered with disgrace and ignominy, before those who had courted him as the emperor himself, him we saw timid and cowardly ut tering cries and entreaties like a woman before all the people, whom he had ruled. The same just providence also made that very Maximinus upon whom he so boastingly relied, as if he loved him exceedingly for his dreadful deeds against us ; him 1 say, in the same city, the justice of God erected into a most re lentless and cruel judge, who pronounced sentence of death against him, after the numerous crimes of which he was con victed. But let this account of him suffice, by the way. Perhaps a suitable occasion may offer, in which we shall also relate the end of those wicked men that wTere principally concerned in waging war against us, and also of Maximinus himself, together with those of his ministers in this work. CHAPTER VIII. Other confessors; also Valentino, and Paulus. WHEN the storm had incessantly raged against us into the sixth year, there had been before this a vast number of confessors of true religion in what is called the Porphyry quarry, from the name of the stone which is found in Thebais. Of these, one hundred, wanting three, men, women, and young infants, were sent to the 2Z