Excerpt from Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, Vol. 2 of 3: Edited With a Biographical Notice, Common Place Books

The first instance Of severity on men's bodies that was not censured by the Church, was in the fifth century, under Justin I., who ordered the tongue of Severus (who had been Patriarch of Antioch, but did daily anathematise the Council of Chalcedon) to be cut out (burnet's History of the Reformation, N ares, 4to edit. P. I. B. I. P.

There is an earlier instance, the martyrdom of Priscillian in the fourth century, which was approved by Leo I. Mosheim, Ecclesia st.

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