{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">For the devil did indeed invent many things against them;\r\nbut thanks be to God, he could not prevail over all. For the\r\nmost noble Germanicus strengthened the timidity of others\r\nby his own patience, and fought heroically<a id=\"r401\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f401\"><sup>[401]</sup></a> with the wild\r\nbeasts. For, when the proconsul sought to persuade him,\r\nand urged him<a id=\"r402\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f402\"><sup>[402]</sup></a> to take pity upon his age, he attracted the\r\nwild beast towards himself, and provoked it, being desirous to\r\nescape all the more quickly from an unrighteous and impious\r\nworld. But upon this the whole multitude, marvelling at the\r\nnobility of mind displayed by the devout and godly race of\r\nChristians,<a id=\"r403\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f403\"><sup>[403]</sup></a> cried out, “Away with the atheists; let Polycarp\r\nbe sought out!”</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. iii.—The constancy of Germanicus. The death of Polycarp is demanded."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-140"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fa11b31dec81f03664a00a4a32cf950360564662edf826cc0ba1abfcf7c51d20","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-f402","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":"f402","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f402\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r402\">402</a>. </span>Or, “said to him.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f402","text_sha256":"58439c32e024c1098b6253f1a1bd6c097ea6bedce874c9d8966d8324a628cb68","verified":false,"work_id":null}