{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">This, then, was carried into effect with greater speed than\r\nit was spoken, the multitudes immediately gathering together\r\nwood and fagots out of the shops and baths; the Jews\r\nespecially, according to custom, eagerly assisting them in it.\r\nAnd when the funeral pile was ready, Polycarp, laying aside\r\nall his garments, and loosing his girdle, sought also to take off\r\nhis sandals,—a thing he was not accustomed to do, inasmuch\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_91\">91</span>as every one of the faithful was always eager who should\r\nfirst touch his skin. For, on account of his holy life,<a id=\"r430\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f430\"><sup>[430]</sup></a> he\r\nwas, even before his martyrdom, adorned<a id=\"r431\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f431\"><sup>[431]</sup></a> with every kind of\r\ngood. Immediately then they surrounded him with those\r\nsubstances which had been prepared for the funeral pile.\r\nBut when they were about also to fix him with nails, he\r\nsaid, “Leave me as I am; for he that giveth me strength to\r\nendure the fire, will also enable me, without your securing\r\nme by nails, to remain without moving in the pile.”</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. xiii.—The funeral pile is erected."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-150"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b424f01f997ed15f59cdcb0362ef7617c79bf6d3d8d9d8da26be772d1dce2556","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-f431","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":"f431","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f431\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r431\">431</a>. </span>Some think this implies that Polycarp’s skin was believed to possess\r\na miraculous efficacy.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f431","text_sha256":"d13d8e55c8a58d99a4c71065f43c86b7f92b5d6361992e42e2b23256ca204bac","verified":false,"work_id":null}