{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">At length, when those wicked men perceived that his body\r\ncould not be consumed by the fire, they commanded an\r\nexecutioner to go near and pierce him through with a dagger.\r\nAnd on his doing this, there came forth a dove,<a id=\"r438\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f438\"><sup>[438]</sup></a> and a great\r\nquantity of blood, so that the fire was extinguished; and all\r\nthe people wondered that there should be such a difference\r\nbetween the unbelievers and the elect, of whom this most\r\nadmirable Polycarp was one, having in our own times been\r\nan apostolic and prophetic teacher, and bishop of the catholic\r\nchurch which is in Smyrna. For every word that went out of\r\nhis mouth either has been or shall yet be accomplished.</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. xvi.—Polycarp is pierced by a dagger."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-153"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7c9f31e0368fe0843178d2fff1f49d52d8b840a6a0315b275e163f17ed3f083f","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-f438","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":"f438","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f438\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r438\">438</a>. </span>Eusebius omits all mention of the <i>dove</i>, and many have thought the\r\ntext to be here corrupt. It has been proposed to read ἐπ’ ἀριστερᾷ, “on\r\nthe left hand side,” instead of περιστερὰ, “a dove.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f438","text_sha256":"6416d0031b5fac1950f1a96cfb2488ccb6ea07782a6c16684424358fa9336955","verified":false,"work_id":null}