Ante-Nicene Christian Library; Translations Of The Writings Of The Fathers Down To A.D. 325, Volume 20: The Writings Of Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius Of Alexandria, And Archelaus

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The word used is the Latin ossicium ' si ossiciales, or corpus ossicialiumJ, Which denoted the ossicera that attended umn presidenta audchiel magistratis. The equivalent Gh. τάξις is used belo' P. s3.

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this long whilo hast thou been in prison : What has been thydetermination concerning those things on Which thou Wast questioned besoro me Dost thou consent in minister totho gota according to thy iomer custom, agr abj to the command of tho emperors l

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have confessed.

is sacrifice.

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hath taught me to spea thus. But thera needoth not that Ιshould bo His advocate, for His οὐ mercies are eloquent advocates for guilty ones like me, and these Will mali topleady on behali in the day When the eternat sentences

aving that there be god' and poWers, and fates, and naturities. On the contrary, I conseas one God, who made theheMens, and the earin, and the seas, and ali that is thereis;

and of the emperors of Whom thou maest thy boast, that Feworship tho Work of tho handa of tho artificem and consessthem, Whitit tho artificem themselves, who mado tho idola, yo insult by the burdens and imposts Which yo lay uponthem Tho artificer staudeth up at thy presence, to do nour to thee; and thou standest up in the presence of thema of the artificer, and dost honour ii and morship it. x Tho judgo said: Thou ari not the man to cali fotherri in account for these things; but hom thysoli a strict accountia demanded, as to the cause tor Which thou hast renouncta tho goti, and refuseat is offer them incenso like tis sello

Sharbil said: Death on account of this is trus liter inoso ho consere the Eang Christ, He also mill confess beforo His glorious Faster.

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io bo morshipped along With ita Creator, as thou supposest. The governor said: It is not this for Whicli the emperoraliave ordered me to demand an account at thy hands, whether there bo judgment and the rendering of an account aster thedeath of men; nor yet about this do I care, Whether that whieli is mado is to be hono ed or not to be honoured. What the emperors have commanded me is this: that, Whos ever mill not sacrifice to the goti and offer incense to them, I should emplo against his stripes, and combs, and aharp

shom to us that there is another Worid, and a judgment in reserve, in Whicli a recompense Will be made, on the oneliand to those who have served God, and on tho other tothose Who have not served Him nor confessed Him. Ther

foro do I cry aloud, that I Will not again sacrifice to idols, nor Mil I offer oblations in deviis, nor Will I do honour todemonst

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this account do not even consess that God exista-neither mill He confera them.

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malefactor. nd the executionera did so, untii thero x mainta not a found place on him.

day of the eternat sentences.

tortures of tho bod' add stili further in iis tortures Whala

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heip tbee, but Will fratheri multiply upon theo inflictions

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