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| Outrages of George.
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7. Outrages of George.
And having seized upon forty men, he beat them
after a new fashion. Cutting some sticks fresh from the palm tree, with
the thorns still upon them1416
, he scourged them
on the back so severely, that some of them were for a long time under
surgical treatment on account of the thorns which had broken off in
their flesh, and others unable to bear up under their sufferings died.
All those whom they had taken, and the virgin, they sent away together
into banishment to the great Oasis. And the bodies of those who had
perished they would not at first suffer to be given up to their
friends, but concealed them in any way they pleased, and cast them out
without burial1417
| 1417 Ibid.
§72 fin. Apol. Const. 27. | , in order that they
might not appear to have any knowledge of these cruel proceedings. But
herein their deluded minds greatly misled them. For the relatives of
the dead, both rejoicing at the confession, and grieving for the bodies
of their friends, published abroad so much the more this proof of their
impiety and cruelty. Moreover they immediately banished out of Egypt
and Libya the following Bishops1418
| 1418 Ibid.
and see Hist. Ar. §72. | , Ammonius,
Muïus1419
| 1419 Hieron. V. Hilar. §30. [Rather see Letter 49.
7, notes 3 (a and b), and Vit. Pachom. 72, where the same names
occur together.] | , Gaïus, Philo1420
| 1420 Hieron. V. Hilar. §30. [Rather see Letter 49.
7, notes 3 (a and b), and Vit. Pachom. 72, where the same names
occur together.] | , Hermes, Plenius, Psenosiris, Nilammon,
Agathus, Anagamphus, Marcus, Ammonius, another Marcus, Dracontius1421
, Adelphius1422
,
Athenodorus, and the Presbyters, Hierax1423
,
and Dioscorus; whom they drove forth under such cruel treatment, that
some of them died on the way, and others in the place of their
banishment. They caused also more than thirty Bishops to take to
flight; for their desire was, after the example of Ahab, if it were
possible, utterly to root out the truth. Such are the enormities of
which these impious men have been guilty.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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