148. See in Dupin, Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom. ii. p.
304-313, a short but rational exposition of the canons of
those councils which were assembled in the first moments of
tranquillity after the persecution of Diocletian. This
persecution had been much less severely felt in Spain than
in Galatia; a difference which may, in some measure, account
for the contrast of their regulations.