Continuation. Several Other Martyrs. - ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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Chapter VI.—Continuation. Several Other Martyrs.

To these men who spent their lives in the practice of holiness, there is to be added a great multitude of the elect, who, having through envy endured many indignities and tortures, furnished us with a most excellent example. Through envy, those women, the Danaids⁴⁰³³

⁴⁰³³ Some suppose these to have been the names of two eminent female martyrs under Nero; others regard the clause as an interpolation.
and Dircæ, being persecuted, after they had suffered terrible and unspeakable torments, finished the course of their faith with stedfastness,⁴⁰³⁴

⁴⁰³⁴ Literally, “have reached to the stedfast course of faith.”
and though weak in body, received a noble reward. Envy has alienated wives from their husbands, and changed that saying of our father Adam, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”⁴⁰³⁵

⁴⁰³⁵ Gen. ii. 23.
Envy and strife have overthrown⁴⁰³⁶

⁴⁰³⁶ I. κατέσκαψεν (razed to the ground).
great cities, and rooted up mighty nations.
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