(Updated July 15, 2025)
This Author Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Ecclesiastical Writer, Sulpicius Severus.
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Sulpicius Severus, Sacred History (c. 403)
Peter was there [Rome] executing the office of bishop, and Paul, too, after he had been brought to Rome, on appealing to Caesar from the unjust judgment of the governor. Multitudes then came together to hear Paul, and these, influenced by the truth which they were given to know, and by the miracles of the apostles, which they then so frequently performed, turned to the worship of God. For then took place the well-known and celebrated encounter of Peter and Paul with Simon [Magus]. He, after he had flown up into the air by his magical arts, and supported by two demons (with the view of proving that he was a god), the demons being put to flight by the prayers of the apostles, fell to the earth in the sight of all the people, and was dashed to pieces.
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