It contains a number of novel social and political insights,
and a whole string of fraudulent misprepresentations:

• (1) Berates the philosophers: "Socrates critical questioning ... menace to the state".
  "Pythagoras had stolen his teaching from Egypt, Plato believed there were many gods."
  "Plato strived for the unknowable ... wrote about a first and second God."
  [Editor: When critical questioning is a menace to the state there's a problem.
  When military supremacists edict for the destruction of the writings
  of leading present and past academics (eg: Porphyry, Arius, Apollonius of Tyana)
  by book burning, it is a clear and unambiguous signal (from modern history)
  that we are dealing with a malevolent dictator, a megalomaniac with a big army.]

• (2) Berates the poets as worse than the philosophers;
  because "poets wrote falsely about the gods".
  FOX: "In a few broad sweeps, Constantine had damned
  the free use of reason and banished poetic imagination."
  [Editor: Our thesis is that Constantine invented and sponsored christianity.
  He would not lightly tolerate any opposition to his new invention.]

• (3) "A dove, said Constantine, had alighted on the virgin mary,
  like the dove which had flown from Noah's ark.
  [Editor: A fact never before mentioned by casts of thousands.
  Constantine probably enjoyed his own stories the most.
  Nero wanted to be on stage and be a divine actor,
  Constantine wanted the spotlights, and to be a divine author.]

• (4) Constantine refers to an ancient Sibyl, a priestess from Erythrae
  who had served Apollo at the 'serpents Tripod' at Delphi.
  Constantine then quotes (in the Greek) thirty-four hexameters,
  from the inspired truth of the Sibyl.

  Most notably, the acrostic formed by the first Greek letter
  of each line spelt "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour, Cross."

  But Constantine was alive to the arguments of skeptics ...

  "They suspect that "someone of our religion,
  not without the gifts of the prophetic muse,
  had inserted false lines and forged the Sibyl's moral tone.
  These skeptics were already known to Origen ... (Constantine continues)

  "Our people have compared the chronologies with great accuracy",
  and the "age" of the Sibyl's verses excludes the view
  that they are a post-christian fake."

  [Editor: Here "The Boss" essentially shoots himself in the foot.
  He explicity defines the recently appeared genre:

  "We may be suspected of clever forgery"
  said the Boss to his new troops, civilians and saints,
  but our best intelligence people assure us
  that these things definitely aren't fake."

  Does this sort of propaganda sound familiar?
  What is the modus operandi of malevolent despotism?]

• (5) But wait, Robin Lane Fox has more to say:

  His proof of this comparison was unexpected: Cicero (106-43 BCE)
  Cicero chanced upon this poem and translated it to Latin.
  The Sibyl, Constantine said, had prophecised christ
  in an acrostic, known to Cicero.

  Robin Lane Fox comments ... "the proof was a fraud twice over."

  [Editor: Fraud is demonstrated in the microcosm of the Oration.
  Fraud is also demonstrated in the macrocosm of political reality.
  Our thesis is that Constantine invented a fabrication and fiction.
  Ancient history informs us that c.331 CE, he lavishly published.]

• (6) Moving on through the Oration, Constantine informs us that
  the advent of Christ had been predicted by Virgil (70-19 BCE)
  in a Latin poem, written 40 BCE, to the poet's patron Pollio.

  Fox says: "Constantine cites Latin's loveliest Eclogue
  to a christian audience [ED: this is DISPUTED]
  for a meaning which it never had."

  Constantine began with the seventh line, in a free Greek translation which changed its meaning"

  p.651: Fox writes:

  "Has there ever been such a sequence of misplaced discoveries in a christian sermon,
  let alone in a speech at the end of a Christian [ED: DISPUTED] synod?

  [Editor: The Boss is on record, in his Oration to the Saints,
  for outright fraudulent misrepresentation of the literature.]

• (7) One sentence of the Oration trod unwarily on Arius' ground.
  [Editor: The Arian controversy arose in opposition
  to the fraudulent historical claims of christianity.
  The words of Arius may be interpretted as historical commentary
  raised in opposition to Constantine's new god.]

  Conclusion: "Men have witnessed battles and watched war in which
  God's Providence granted victory to this host." God, in short, had willed
  Constantine's victory in response to his piety and prayers,
  the themes of which ran through history and his entire Oration ...
  Philosophy and paganism were as dead as the old Assyrian cities:
  Constantine had freed the East by his prayers and piety,
  and before them both lay the promised future of God."

[Editor: Clearly note that before the meeting at Antioch Ossius personally
interrogated each of the attendees, in a screening process to gauge support
for the implementation of the brand new (and strange) religion of Constantine.
Standard modus operandi of despots in the establishment of power.

Names and address are taken, rank and serial number if military.
City, civil position and direct supervisor if civilian, and
in either case, the gods to whom the attendee devoted their thought.

Constantine's scribes are taking it all down for future reference.
How to win friends influence people, and to levy the maximum tax.
Such pre-meeting informalities were big business, for all parties.

"War is a racket" --- Smedley Butler]

According to my thesis, the Assembly of the Saints was an assembly of "Eastern pagan saints", the soon to be last in the lineage of the Hellenic philosophers, and priests that Constantine was to execute and destroy.

The Boss shoots himself in the foot.
He is a fraud as his new and strange religion.

There has been alot of scholarly interest in the processes of textual criticism in Biblical Criticism & History. Perhaps some textual critic, acting for "The Boss" might try and dislodge the silver bullet firmly implanted in Constantine's right foot.

Best wishes one and all.

P.R.F. Brown
THESIS: Constantine Invented Christianity
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