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| Chapter XIII.—The funeral pile is erected.
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Chapter XIII.—The funeral pile is
erected.
This, then, was carried into effect with greater speed
than it was spoken, the multitudes immediately gathering together wood
and fagots out of the shops and baths; the Jews especially, according to
custom, eagerly assisting them in it. And when the funeral pile was
ready, Polycarp, laying aside all his garments, and loosing his girdle,
sought also to take off his sandals,—a thing he was not
accustomed to do, inasmuch as every one of the faithful was always eager
who should first touch his skin. For, on
account of his holy life,454
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Literally, “good behaviour.” | he was, even before
his martyrdom, adorned455
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Some think this implies that Polycarp’s skin was believed to
possess a miraculous efficacy. | with every kind of good.
Immediately then they surrounded him with those substances which had been
prepared for the funeral pile. But when they were about also to fix him
with nails, he said, “Leave me as I am; for He that giveth me
strength to endure the fire, will also enable me, without your securing
me by nails, to remain without moving in the pile.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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