They also called them Atheists, and their religion the Atheism or Impiety, because they derided the worship of the heathen gods. Dio*** says, Acilius Glabrio was put to death for atheism, meaning the Christian religion. And the Christian apologists, Athenagoras**** Justin Martyr(v), Arnobius(vi), and others, reckon this among the crimes which the heathens usually lay to their charge. Eusebius says(vii) the name was become so common, that when the persecuting magistrates would oblige a Christian to renounce his religion, they bade him abjure it in this form, by saying among other things, [--------] 'Confusion to the atheists, Away with the impious,' meaning the Christians. To this they added the name of Greeks and Impostors. Which is noted by St. Jerome(viii) who says * Chrys. Horn. 63. torn. 5. ** Naz. i. Invectiv. *** Dio in Domitian. **** Athen. Legat. pro Christ. (v) Just. Apol. i. p. 47. (vi) Arnob. lib. i. (vii) Euseb. lib. iv. c. 15. (viii) Hieron. Ep. 10. ad Furiara. Ubicunque viderint {100} wheresoever they saw a Christian, they would presently cry out, '[--------], 'Behold a Grecian impostor.' This was the character which the Jews gave our Saviour, [--------]' that deceiver*, Matt, xxvii. 63. And Justin Martyr** says, they endeavoured to propagate it to posterity, sending their apostles or emissaries from Jerusalem to all the synagogues in the world, to bid them beware of a certain impious, lawless sect, lately risen up under one Jesus, a Galilaean impostor. Hence Lucian*** took occasion in his blasphemous raillery to style him The crucified sophister. And Celsus**** commonly gives him and his followers the name of [--------] 'deceivers.' So Asclepiades the judge in Prudentius**** compliments them with the appellation of sophisters; and Ulpian(v) proscribes them in a law by the name of impostors. The reason why they added the name of Greeks * Christianum, statim illud de Trivio, [--------] vocant Impostorem. ** Justin. Dial. c. Tryph. p. 335. *** Lucian. Peregrin. **** Cels. ap. Orig. lib. i. et lib. 6. (v) Prudent. [--------]. Carm. 9. de Romano Marty. Quis hos Sophistas error invexit novus, &c. (vi) Digest, lib. 50. tit. 13. c 1. Si incantavit, si in- precatus est, si (ut vulgari verbo Impostoruxn utar) si exorcisavit {101}