Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The proconsul then said to him, “I have wild beasts at\r\nhand; to these will I cast thee, except thou repent.” But he\r\nanswered, “Call them then, for we are not accustomed to\r\nrepent of what is good in order to adopt that which is evil;<a id=\"r425\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f425\"><sup>[425]</sup></a>\r\nand it is well for me to be changed from what is evil to what\r\nis righteous.”<a id=\"r426\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f426\"><sup>[426]</sup></a> But again the proconsul said to him, “I will\r\ncause thee to be consumed by fire, seeing thou despisest the\r\nwild beasts, if thou wilt not repent.” But Polycarp said,\r\n“Thou threatenest me with fire which burneth for an hour,\r\nand after a little is extinguished, but art ignorant of the fire\r\nof the coming judgment and of eternal punishment, reserved\r\nfor the ungodly. But why tarriest thou? Bring forth\r\nwhat thou wilt.”</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. xi.—No threats have any effect on Polycarp."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-148"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6e2cc860c9f988cffe48fa8fbdbec9a8ce1717131e36879d053360031e5e3635","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-f425","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":"f425","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f425\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r425\">425</a>.  </span>Literally, “repentance from things better to things worse is a change\r\nimpossible to us.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f425","text_sha256":"04e6e3403d5988ea0741c5cc062e2d99a3540372a5b4d8b895415c695e3dbb8a","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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