Constantius II punishes by death the marriage of a Jew with a Christian woman from imperial manufactories and the circumcision of a slave

Constance II punished with death the marriage of a Jew with a woman employed in the imperial gynaecea, and extended to the circumcision of a slave the death penalty with confiscation. The legislation of the Roman Empire thus passed, within a single generation, from the prohibition of conversion to the criminalization of domestic life.

The same period saw the prohibition imposed on Jews from purchasing non-Jewish slaves and, in the Land of Israel, the repression of the uprising that Byzantine chroniclers place under Gallus, with the destruction of several villages in Galilee. The patriarchate survived, but its foundations were narrowing from one text to the next.