Eusebius of Caesarea, Martyrs of Palestine 1.3
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μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως πλεῖστοι ὅσοι τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἐκκλησιῶν ἄρχοντες, δειναῖς αἰκίαις προθύμως διαθλήσαντες, μεγάλων ἀγώνων ἱστορίαν τοῖς ἐνορῶσιν ἐνεδείξαντο, ἄλλοι δὲ ὑπὸ δειλίας τὴν ψυχὴν προναρκήσαντες προχείρως οὕτως ἀπὸ πρώτης ἐξησθένησαν προσβολῆς, τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν ἕκαστος εἴδη διάφορα βασάνων διήλλαττον, τοτὲ μὲν μάστιξιν ἀνηρίθμοις, τοτὲ δὲ στρεβλώσεσι καὶ καταξάνσεσι τῶν πλευρῶν δεσμοῖς τε ἀνυπομονήτοις, ὑφ’ ὧν τισὶ καὶ παρεθῆναι συνέβη τὰς χεῖρας.1
Translation
Afterwards, in the same city, many rulers of the country churches readily endured terrible sufferings, and furnished to the beholders an example of noble conflicts. But others, benumbed in spirit by terror, were easily weakened at the first onset. Of the rest, each one endured different forms of torture, as scourgings without number, and rackings, and tearings of their sides, and insupportable fetters, by which the hands of some were dislocated.2
Works Cited
- 1 Eusebius of Caesarea, De martyribus Palaestinae (Recensio Brevior): Machine Readable Text, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf (Leipzig: University of Leipzig, 2014), section: 1.3.
- 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: 1.3.
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: 1.3.
- 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: 1.3.
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