Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">While he spoke these and many other like things, he was\r\nfilled with confidence and joy, and his countenance was full\r\nof grace, so that not merely did it not fall as if troubled by\r\nthe things said to him, but, on the contrary, the proconsul\r\nwas astonished, and sent his herald to proclaim in the midst\r\nof the stadium thrice, “Polycarp has confessed that he is a\r\nChristian.” This proclamation having been made by the\r\nherald, the whole multitude both of the heathen and Jews,\r\nwho dwelt at Smyrna, cried out with uncontrollable fury,\r\nand in a loud voice, “This is the teacher of Asia,<a id=\"r427\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f427\"><sup>[427]</sup></a> the father\r\nof the Christians, and the overthrower of our gods, he who\r\nhas been teaching many not to sacrifice, or to worship the\r\ngods.” Speaking thus, they cried out, and besought Philip\r\nthe Asiarch<a id=\"r428\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f428\"><sup>[428]</sup></a> to let loose a lion upon Polycarp. But Philip\r\nanswered that it was not lawful for him to do so, seeing the\r\nshows<a id=\"r429\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f429\"><sup>[429]</sup></a> of wild beasts were already finished. Then it seemed\r\ngood to them to cry out with one consent, that Polycarp\r\nshould be burnt alive. For thus it behoved the vision which\r\nwas revealed to him in regard to his pillow to be fulfilled,\r\nwhen, seeing it on fire as he was praying, he turned about\r\nand said prophetically to the faithful that were with him,\r\n“I must be burnt alive.”</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE MARTYRDOM OF POLYCARP.","THE ENCYCLICAL EPISTLE OF THE CHURCH AT SMYRNA CONCERNING THE MARTYRDOM OF THE HOLY POLYCARP.","Chap. xii.—Polycarp is sentenced to be burned."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-149"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c87fa741c7b8218418fd3527e42b3ae71cc7cde47784bc8ee99924f00c3d14aa","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f427","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f427","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f427\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r427\">427</a>.  </span>Some read, “ungodliness,” but the above seems preferable.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f427","text_sha256":"b82e4924cdf0fce7a55884b160ba74524170f8053aa8ba16d25b17710575a9d7","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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