Note 011
From Chapter 16 of the Decline & Fall

The author of the Philopatris perpetually treats the Christians as a company of dreaming enthusiasts,

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etc.; and in one place manifestly alludes to the vision in which St. Paul was transported to the third heaven. In another place, Triephon who personates a Christian, after deriding the gods of Paganism, proposes a mysterious oath:—

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