Maximin, Struck Blind, Issues an Edict for the Christians

And still the blow of God weighed heavily on him, so that his eyes bulged out and fell from their sockets and left him completely blind. So, by a most righteous repayment, he suffered the very same punishment that he had been the first to devise for the martyrs of God. At last, however, still living even through these sufferings, he too begged pardon from the God of the Christians and confessed his godless fighting against God. He too recanted, as the earlier persecutor had. By laws and decrees he openly admitted his error in worshiping those he had counted as gods, declaring that he now knew by actual experience that the God of the Christians was the only true God. These were things that Licinius had not merely heard from others but had known for himself. And yet, as though his understanding had been darkened by some black cloud of error, he went on in the same evil course.