Critics of the Western interpretation, including the Emperor himself, argue that the repudiation of divinity was not the point of the rescript.
42.
"Duty is heavier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather, " went the imperial rescript to soldiers.
43.
Where Diocletian's system of rescripts shows an adherence to classical tradition, Constantine's law is full of Greek and eastern influences.
44.
He wrote a commentary on Japan's Imperial Rescript on Education, wherein he encouraged the Japanese people to support the state and imperialism.
45.
"The promulgation of the Papal Rescript, condemning boycotting and the Plan of Campaign as grave offences against the moral law, took Mgr.
46.
The Emperor also sent a rescript to Karl Frederick dated 20 August 1717 instructing him not to call his wife princess or their sons princes.
47.
Therefore, since the Croatian and Hungarian estates had widely diverging interests with respect to Fiume, they produced very different interpretations of the rescript.
48.
"This court . . . should reject ( Woodward's ) attempt to rescript her criminal conviction, " the lawyers argued.
49.
Emperors in the forty years preceding Diocletian's reign had not managed these duties so effectively, and their output in attested rescripts is low.
50.
A rescript of Hadrian reminded magistrates that " those sentenced to the sword " should be despatched immediately " or at least within the year ".
