{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now, the blessed Polycarp suffered martyrdom on the\r\nsecond day of the month Xanthicus just begun,<a id=\"r452\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f452\"><sup>[452]</sup></a> the seventh\r\nday before the Calends of May, on the great Sabbath, at the\r\neighth hour.<a id=\"r453\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f453\"><sup>[453]</sup></a> He was taken by Herod, Philip the Trallian\r\nbeing high priest,<a id=\"r454\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f454\"><sup>[454]</sup></a> Statius Quadratus being proconsul, but\r\nJesus Christ being King for ever, to whom be glory, honour,\r\nmajesty, and an everlasting throne, from generation to generation.\r\nAmen.</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. xxi.—The date of the martyrdom."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-158"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c63b79b4677d23b323370bc14c47d7f58684fca83a89fb2257e1d02abcca7894","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-f453","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":"f453","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f453\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r453\">453</a>. </span>Great obscurity hangs over the chronology here indicated. According\r\nto Usher, the Smyrnæans began the month Xanthicus on the 25th\r\nof March. But the seventh day before the Calends of May is the 25th\r\nof April. Some, therefore, read Ἀπριλλίων instead of Μαΐων. The\r\ngreat Sabbath is that before the passover. The “eighth hour” may\r\ncorrespond either to our 8 <abbr class=\"spell\"><span class=\"fss\">A.M.</span></abbr> or 2 <abbr class=\"spell\"><span class=\"fss\">P.M.</span></abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f453","text_sha256":"675f33536edd2a96aa48dcbe8f2f46c008cf433b2e6e044a84598a909171cf6a","verified":false,"work_id":null}