Anf-03 v.x.xv Pg 6
John xxi. 18.
when he is made fast to the cross. Then does Paul obtain a birth suited to Roman citizenship, when in Rome he springs to life again ennobled by martyrdom. Wherever I read of these occurrences, so soon as I do so, I learn to suffer; nor does it signify to me which I follow as teachers of martyrdom, whether the declarations or the deaths of the apostles, save that in their deaths I recall their declarations also. For they would not have suffered ought of a kind they had not previously known they had to suffer. When Agabus, making use of corresponding action too, had foretold that bonds awaited Paul, the disciples, weeping and entreating that he would not venture upon going to Jerusalem, entreated in vain.8328 8328
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xxvi Pg 13
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 21
VERSE (18) - Joh 13:36 Ac 12:3,4