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| Chapter XXI.—The date of the martyrdom.
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Chapter XXI.—The date of the
martyrdom.
Now, the blessed Polycarp suffered martyrdom on the
second day of the month Xanthicus just begun,476
| 476 The translation is here very doubtful.
Wake renders the words μηνὸς ἱσταμένου,
“of the present month.” | the seventh day
before the Kalends of May, on the great Sabbath, at the eighth hour.477
| 477 Great obscurity hangs over the
chronology here indicated. According to Usher, the Smyrnæans began the
month Xanthicus on the 25th of March. But the seventh day before the
Kalends of May is the 25th of April. Some, therefore, read ᾽Απριλλίων instead of
Μαίων. The great
Sabbath is that before the passover. The “eighth hour” may
correspond either to our 8 a.m.
or 2 p.m.
| He was taken by Herod,
Philip the Trallian being high priest,478
| 478 Called before (chap. xii.) Asiarch. |
Statius Quadratus being proconsul, but Jesus Christ being King for ever,
to whom be glory, honour, majesty, and an everlasting throne, from
generation to generation. Amen.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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