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| Chapter XVI.—Polycarp is pierced by a dagger.
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Chapter XVI.—Polycarp is pierced by a
dagger.
At length, when those wicked men perceived that his
body could not be consumed by the fire, they commanded an executioner to
go near and pierce him through with a dagger. And on his doing this, there came forth a dove,462
| 462 Eusebius omits all mention of
the dove, and many have thought the text to be here corrupt. It
has been proposed to read ἐπ’ ἀριστερᾷ,
“on the left hand side,” instead of περιστερά,
“a dove.” | and a great quantity of blood, so that
the fire was extinguished; and all the people wondered that there should
be such a difference between the unbelievers and the elect, of whom this
most admirable Polycarp was one, having in our own times been an
apostolic and prophetic teacher, and bishop of the Catholic Church which
is in Smyrna. For every word that went out of his mouth either has been
or shall yet be accomplished.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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