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| Chapter VI.—Continuation. Several other martyrs.
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Chapter VI.—Continuation. Several
other martyrs.
To these men who spent their
lives in the practice of holiness, there is to be added a great multitude
of the elect, who, having through envy endured many indignities and
tortures, furnished us with a most excellent example. Through envy, those women, the
Danaids32
| 32 Some suppose
these to have been the names of two eminent female martyrs under Nero;
others regard the clause as an interpolation. [Many ingenious conjectures
might be cited; but see Jacobson’s valuable note, Patres
Apostol., vol. i. p. 30.] | and Dircæ, being persecuted,
after they had suffered terrible and unspeakable torments, finished the
course of their faith with stedfastness,33
and though weak in body, received a noble
reward. Envy has alienated wives from their husbands, and changed that
saying of our father Adam, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh
of my flesh.”34
Envy and strife have
overthrown great cities and rooted up mighty nations.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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