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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which he was burni, and received his croWn. And, Whereas I havo written doWn the year, and the monili, and the day, of the coronation os these martyrs, it is not for the salie osthose Who, lihe me, Were spectators of the deed, but With thevieW that those who come aster us may learn at what timotheso martyrs suffered, and What manner of men they Were;

even as they may learnJ also from the Acts of tho formermartyrs, Who livedJ in the days of Domitianus and of allthe other Emporors Who like ise also raised a persecutionagainst the church, and put a great many to death, is stripes and by bearing WithJ combs, and by bitter inflictions, and by sharp sWords, and by hurning fire, and by the terribiesea, and by the merciless mines. And ali these things, and things like them, sthey sufferedJ for the hope of the recom

pense to come.

Moreover, the afflictions of these martyrs, and of those os

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Habib the martyr, clad in flamo, hath called to me out of the fire, That for him likewise I should lashion an image of beauty among the glorious. Comrade os conquerora, tot he beckoneth to me out os the burning, That, as sor the glory of his Lord, I should sing concerning him. In the micit ot live coala stands the fheroicJ man, and tot heoalleth to me,

That 1 inould sustion his imago: but tho blaeting fire permits

His Iove is servid, glowing is his satin ;Ηis fire also burnoth, and who is adequale to recount his love 3 Fay, by reason os that love which led the martyr into the fire, No man is able to recount his beauties divine. The Iis. Dom .hita inis is tinen is Cod. Add. 17, 158, sol. 30 vera.

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conquerora.

And, it of the thres the beauties be glorious, though they Were not

livere M. hoth, appears to depend on the nature of the Syriae accentuation, WVehis auli an unaetvel question. Hofima , in his aliot notios es thea ject Gram. Syri ε 13 , merely ava: Scim , meain Syriaeam non quantitatis sed accentus tantum rationem habere, Vera que auos sy barum numero metiri. Qua tamen meaeos Syriacae conditione varietas morarum in pronuntiandia vocalibus obseruandarum non tollitur.' Disjtjgod by OOOle

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Moreover, too, the mill of the three Who mere not burned, And of him .ho was burned, is one and the fame, in this caseand in that; And, had iis Lord commanded the fire to burn them, ΓΕvenJ inose three on their pari, burned they Mould have been; d, is he had signified to it that it should not burn that one man

that he was reseued.

glorious.

victorious.

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Zealous he was, because he Was concerned sor the doctrine

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be a sacrifice.

sacrifice; And he set oui and came to the sacrificere rejoicing. Ho heard that others also mere Ming afficted sor his sine, d he came that ho might bear the suffering which Was his, in the stead os mans

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Menacing him, and trying to terrisy him, and to trighten him, And recounting the sufferings Which were Ming prepared by

him on his account.

All tho vhilo that sho mas coming, ine sent his sufferings, that is means of them