Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 6.3
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τί τοίνυν τοῦτο ἦν; μάρτυς τοῦ καθ’ ἡμᾶς δόγματος παρήγετο εἰς μέσον, τῆς μόνης καὶ ἀληθοῦς εὐσεβείας ὑπεραγωνιζόμενος. Ἀγάπιος οὗτος ἦν, ὁ δεύτερος ἅμα τῇ Θέκλᾳ θηρσὶν ἐπὶ βορᾷ δεδόσθαι μικρῷ πρότερον δεδηλωμένος, ὃς δὴ καὶ ἄλλοτε δεσμωτηρίου τρίτον καὶ πολλάκις ἅμα κακούργοις ἐμπομπεύσας τῷ σταδίῳ, ἀεί γε μὴν κατὰ χρόνους τοῦ δικαστοῦ μετὰ τὰς ἀπειλὰς, ἤτοι κατ’ οἶκτον ἢ κατ’ ἐλπίδα τοῦ μεταθήσεσθαι τῆς προθέσεως, εἰς ἑτέρους αὐτὸν ἀγῶνας ὑπερτιθεμένου, τότε δὴ βασιλέως ἐπιπαρόντος ἤγετο, ὥσπερ ἐπίτηδες εἰς ἐκεῖνο τοῦ καιροῦ πεφυλαγμένος, ὥστ’ ἂν κἀκεῖνο τὸ σωτήριον ῥῆμα, ὃ τοῖς μαθηταῖς θείᾳ γνώσει προηγόρευεν, ὡς ἄρα καὶ ἐπὶ βασιλέων ἀχθήσονται ἕνεκεν τῆς εἰς αὐτὸν μαρτυρίας, καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ πληρωθείη.1
Translation
A witness of our doctrine was brought into the midst and endured the contest for the true and only religion. This was Agapius, who, as we have stated a little above, was, with Thecla, the second to be thrown to the wild beasts for food. He had also, three times and more, marched with malefactors from the prison to the arena; and every time, after threats from the judge, whether in compassion or in hope that he might change his mind, had been reserved for other conflicts. But the emperor being present, he was brought out at this time, as if he had been appropriately reserved for this occasion, until the very word of the Savior should be fulfilled in him, which through divine knowledge he declared to his disciples, that they should be brought before kings on account of their testimony unto him.2
Translation Note
Translation corrected and adapted from its source.Works Cited
- 1 Eusebius of Caesarea, De martyribus Palaestinae (Recensio Brevior): Machine Readable Text, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf (Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 2014), section: 6.3.
- 2 Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine: Machine Readable Text, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. Arthur Cushman McGiffert (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 1993), section: 6.3.
Additional Bibliography
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Liber de martyribus Palestinae, in Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf, vol. 4, Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Leipzig: Teubner, 1867), 383–418, section: 6.3.
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine, in Eusebius: Church History, Life of Constantine the Great, and Oration in Praise of Constantine., ed. Arthur Cushman McGiffert et al., repr. of American ed., Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 2nd Series 1 (New York: Christian Literature Publishing, 1890), 342–56, section: 6.3.
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