For them, such an act would signify unfaithfulness to Jehovah, and numerous early Christians preferred to die rather than perform idolatrous emperor worship.
सुरुवातीच्या कितीतरी ख्रिश्‍चनांनी, सम्राटाची उपासना करून मूर्तिपूजा करण्याऐवजी मरण पत्करले.