Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world; the story of the advance of Christianity from Bible times to latest periods of persecution .. . THE EMPEROR VALERIAN FLAYED BY ORDER OF SAPOR, KING OF PERSIA. 94 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. him into his own country, and there treated him with the utmostcruelty. Sapor made him kneel down before him as if he werehis meanest slave, and used him as a footstool when he mountedhis horse, saying in a tone of taunting contempt, This crouchingform of him who was once an emperor, shows which way the vic-tory went, better than all the pictures the Roman artists ca
Foxe's Christian martyrs of the world; the story of the advance of Christianity from Bible times to latest periods of persecution .. . THE EMPEROR VALERIAN FLAYED BY ORDER OF SAPOR, KING OF PERSIA. 94 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. him into his own country, and there treated him with the utmostcruelty. Sapor made him kneel down before him as if he werehis meanest slave, and used him as a footstool when he mountedhis horse, saying in a tone of taunting contempt, This crouchingform of him who was once an emperor, shows which way the vic-tory went, better than all the pictures the Roman artists can draw. Having kept Valerian for the space of seven years in this pitifulstate of slavery, Sapor then ordered his eyes to be put out. Vale-rian was now blind as well as a captive, but his cruel masters re-venge was far from being satisfied even then; for soon after heordered the unfortunate emperor to be flayed alive, under which tor-ments he expired. Gallienus, the son of Valerian, succeeded him, and during hisreign the empire suffered many commotions, particularly earth-quakes, pestilence, inundations, and attacks of barbarian
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