Further Observations Respecting the Aforementioned Persecution

We began this century in the East, then proceeded to the West, and have now returned to the East, namely, to the countries situated east of Italy, and consequently far from Rome, and from the Roman see of papal dominion.

As for the persecutions mentioned above, as well as the churches that existed in the East, especially in the Thessalonian regions, and the martyrs who fell there, namely, what and how much is to be held of them, this can be gathered from the explanation we gave at the beginning, to which we here refer the reader.

These Arabians went on and brought still more persecution and misery upon many Christian believers in other countries; however, for reasons already mentioned, we are again prevented from speaking more fully, or at least separately, of each person who may have been martyred there.