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THE EDICT OF THESSALONICA

 
 

BIBLICAL REFERENCE

2Th 2:3,4,9-12  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (See: "Ex Cathedra") <> Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Written to the city of Thessalonica
 

THE EDICT OF THESSALONICA

EMPERORS GRATIAN, VALENTINIAN AND THEODOSIUS AUGUSTI.

It is our desire that all the various nations which are subject to our Clemency and Moderation, should continue to profess that religion which was delivered to the Romans by the divine Apostle Peter, as it has been preserved by faithful tradition, and which is now professed by the Pontiff Damasus and by Peter, Bishop of Alexandria, a man of apostolic holiness. According to the apostolic teaching and the doctrine of the Gospel, let us believe in the one deity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, in equal majesty and in a holy Trinity. We authorize the followers of this law to assume the title of Catholic Christians; _but as for the others_, since, in our judgment they are foolish madmen, we decree that they shall be branded with the ignominious name of heretics, and shall not presume to give to their conventicles the name of churches. They will suffer in the first place the chastisement of the divine condemnation and in the second the punishment of our authority which in accordance with the will of Heaven we shall decide to inflict.
GIVEN IN THESSALONICA
ON THE THIRD DAY FROM THE CALENDS OF MARCH,
DURING THE FIFTH CONSULATE OF GRATIAN AUGUSTUS
AND FIRST OF THEODOSIUS AUGUSTUS[3]
— Codex Theodosianus, xvi.1.2
February 27, 380 A.D.
 
Within a decade after the Edict of Thessalonica, 7000 protestors were massacred in the streets of Thessalonica. The name of the Pope emerging from the council of Ephesus, who approved of the massacre, was named Sixtus III, (Literally, "Sixth III").  The Theodosius Codex established under his Pontificate, put control of all buying and selling under the Papacy, outlawed NT Jewish Christianity, and led to the complete extermination and starvation of Christ's own family, and descendents of the Apostles from the New Testament, such as James, ("the Lord's brother" Gal.1:19)

- Source, Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, by Vatican Jesuit Scholar - Malachi Martin