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Nero executes Christians in Rome. 1 Clement refers to the deaths of Peter and Paul as known facts.
In plain words
Nero executes Christians in Rome, and the letter known as 1 Clement speaks of the deaths of Peter and Paul as known facts. The persecution stands in the enemy's own history, not only the church's.
The mechanism
HOSTILE AND INTERNAL WITNESS CONVERGING — the persecution is in the enemy's own history, not only in the church's
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE WITNESSES AND THE TURN 44 to 312 AD
- Plate — Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cagliari · photo Carole Raddato · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marble_bust_of_Nero,_from_Olbia_(forum?),_AD_54-55-59,_Cagliari,_Museo_Archeologico_Nazionale_(16333604578).jpg
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD — Tacitus, Annals 15.44; 1 Clement, within living memory
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