Chapter
X.
1. On
the fourteenth day of the following month Appellæus,2673
| 2673 i.e. Dec. 14, 308 (see the tables on p. 403, below). |
the nineteenth before the Kalends of
January, certain persons from Egypt were again
seized by those who
examined people passing the
gates. They had been sent to
minister to
the confessors in Cilicia. They received the same sentence as those
whom they had gone to help, being mutilated in their
eyes and
feet.
Three of them exhibited in Ascalon, where they were
imprisoned,
marvelous bravery in the endurance of various kinds of martyrdom. One
of them named Ares was
condemned to the
flames, and the others, called
Probus
2674
| 2674 The majority of the codices read Πρόμος, but
as Valesius remarks, such a proper name is quite unknown in Greek, and
the form probably arose from a confusion of β and μ, which in ancient mss. were written alike. Two of our existing codices
read Πρόβος, and
this has been adopted by Zimmermann and Heinichen, whom I have followed
in the text. |
and
Elias, were
beheaded.
2. On the eleventh day of the
month Audynæus,2675
which is the
third before the Ides of January, in the same city of Cæsarea,
Peter an ascetic, also called Apselamus,
2676
| 2676 In the Syriac version “Absalom.” |
from the
village of Anea,
2677
| 2677 Of this village we know nothing, but Eleutheropolis (originally
Bethozabris) was an important place lying some forty miles southwest of
Jerusalem. |
on the borders of Eleutheropolis, like
purest
gold, gave
noble proof by
fire of his
faith in the
Christ of
God. Though the
judge and those around him besought him many times to
have
compassion on himself, and to spare his own
youth and bloom, he
disregarded them, preferring
hope in the
God of the universe to all
things, even to
life itself. A certain Asclepius, supposed to be
2678
| 2678 εἶναι
δοκῶν. Eusebius did
not wish to admit that he was a bishop in a true sense. |
a
bishop of the
sect of Marcion,
possessed as he thought with zeal for religion, but “not
according to knowledge,”
2679
ended his life
on one and the same funeral pyre. These things took place in this
manner.
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