As for those who denied Christianity by cursing Christ and worshipping a statue of the emperor and the images of the gods that Pliny had brought into court, he wrote: “I thought it right to let them go. ”
सुरुवातीच्या ख्रिश्‍चनांनी रोमन सम्राटाची व रोमच्या निरनिराळ्या देवदेवतांची उपासना करण्यास नकार दिल्यामुळे त्यांचा छळ करण्यात आला.