"Nam daemonia magistratus sunt saeculi huius ; unius collegii insignia fasces et purpuras gestant."
— Christian pacifism

January 1, 1970

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For demons are the magistrates of this world: they bear the fasces and the purples, the ensigns of one college. — Tertullian, On Idolatry, Chapter 18, Dress as Connected with Idolatry (c. 200 A.D.)