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| A criticism on Rufinus' Apology to Anastasius. His excuses for not coming to Rome are absurd. His parents are dead and the journey is easy. No one ever heard before of his being imprisoned or exiled for the faith.
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3. I will touch upon the other points, and set down the
actual words of his letter:
“Although my faith was
proved, at the time of the persecution by the heretics, when I was
living in the holy church of Alexandria, by imprisonments and exiles,
to which I was subjected because of the faith.”
I only wonder that he did not
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“The prisoner of Jesus
Christ,” or “I was delivered from the jaw of the
lion,” or “I fought with beasts at Alexandria,” or
“I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth
there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.” What exiles,
what imprisonments are these which he describes? I blush for this open
falsehood. As if imprisonment and exile would be inflicted without
judicial sentences! I should like to have a list of these imprisonments
and of the various provinces to which he tells us that he was forced
into exile. Next there appear to have been numerous imprisonments and
an infinite number of exiles; so that he might at least name one of
them all. Let us have the acts of his confessorship produced, for
hitherto we have been in ignorance of them; and so let us have the
satisfaction of reciting his deeds with those of the other martyrs of
Alexandria, and that he may be able to meet the people who bark against
him with the words:3086
“From
henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of
our Lord Jesus Christ.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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