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| | Did Tertullian really exist? Did Cyprian? Did Hippolytus? |
 | | Churches wielded a separate power that was liable to come into conflict with the pagan rulings, their leaders considering themselves entitled, as the only interpreters of the divine will, to set out guidelines, religious or otherwise, to be observed by all their followers. |
 | | In 308, the vicar of Africa, Domitius Alexander, took advantage of the crisis to proclaim himself a further Augustus; Maxentius was unable to crush his rebellion until 311. |
 | | The purist renewal, which survived for centuries in adverse conditions in Africa as in many other regions, was not universally recognized by the name of its true initiator. |
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