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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
Probus2674
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 be2678
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.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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