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| 4816 “This extract is found
in Œcumenius upon 1 Pet. c. iii. p. 198; and the words used by him
indicate, as Grabe has justly observed, that he only condensed a longer
passage.”—Harvey. | when the
Greeks, having arrested the slaves of Christian catechumens, then used
force against them, in order to learn from them some secret thing
[practised] among Christians, these slaves, having nothing to say that
would meet the wishes of their tormentors, except that they had heard
from their masters that the divine communion was the body and blood of
Christ, and imagining that it was actually flesh and blood, gave their
inquisitors answer to that effect. Then these latter, assuming such to be
the case with regard to the practices of Christians, gave information
regarding it to other Greeks, and sought to compel the martyrs Sanctus
and Blandina to confess, under the influence of torture, [that the
allegation was correct]. To these men Blandina replied very admirably in
these words: “How should those persons endure such [accusations],
who, for the sake of the practice [of piety], did not avail themselves
even of the flesh that was permitted [them to eat]?”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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