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See Bennett, 240, for the rebuilding of the Temple, and Wilken, The First Thousand Years, 120, for reinstatement of animal sacrifices.

      63. Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, book 23, chapter 1. Sozomen (c. 400–450), a Christian writer, confirms Marcellinus’s account. See Gary Michuta, Hostile Witnesses: How the Historic Enemies of the Church Prove Christianity (El Cajon, CA: Catholic Answers Press, 2016), 149.

      64. The phrase may be legend. See Bennett, 256.

      65. Augustine, The City of God, 5.26.

      66. Wilken, The First Thousand Years, 95.

      67. Theodosian Code XVI, 1, 2, quoted in Jean Comby, How to Read Church History: From the Beginnings to the Fifteenth Century, vol. I (New York: Crossroads, 2001), 73.