eBooks - History - Religion - Philip Schaff - Ante-Nicene Christianity: History Of The Christian Church Volume II
Ante-Nicene Christianity: History Of The Christian Church Volume II eBook
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Ante-Nicene Christianity: History Of The Christian Church Volume II Summary
| Eight volume series. Thus Tertullian tells of a company of Christians in Ephesus, who begged martyrdom from the heathen governor, but after a few had been executed, the rest were sent away by him with the words: "Miserable creatures, if you really wish to die, you have precipices and halters enough." Though this error was far less discreditable than the opposite extreme of the cowardly fear of man, yet it was contrary to the instruction and the example of Christ and the apostles,6 3 and to the spirit of true martyrdom, which consists in the union of sincere humility and power, and possesses divine strength in the very consciousness of human weakness. |
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