28. Eusebius always considers the second civil war against
Licinius as a sort of religious crusade. At the invitation
of the tyrant, some Christian officers had resumed their
zones; or, in other words, had returned to the military
service. Their conduct was afterwards censured by the
twelfth canon of the Council of Nice, if this particular
application may be received, instead of the loose and
general sense of the Greek interpreters, Balsamon, Zonaras,
and Alexis Aristenus. See Beveridge, Pandect. Eccles, Graec,
tom. i. p. 72, tom. ii. p. 78. Annotation .