. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. ife if he would curse Christ and swear by the fortune ofCaesar. The venerable man replied, He has done me nothingbut good, and how could I curse him, my Lord and Saviour. I will cast you to the wild beasts threatened the proconsul. Bring the wild beasts hither, replied the prisoner, forchange my mind from the better to the worse I will to terrify him by bodily ago
. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. ife if he would curse Christ and swear by the fortune ofCaesar. The venerable man replied, He has done me nothingbut good, and how could I curse him, my Lord and Saviour. I will cast you to the wild beasts threatened the proconsul. Bring the wild beasts hither, replied the prisoner, forchange my mind from the better to the worse I will to terrify him by bodily agonies the Roman * Vide. Strabo, bk. xiv. 1, 37. POLYCARP OF SMYRNA. 465 threatened, I will subdue your spirit by the names. Un-moved by fear and full of faith Polycarp answered, theflames endure but for a time, but there is a fire reserved for thewicked, the fire of a judgment to come and of a punishmenteverlasting. Thus died the faithful man, who had known inhis youth the Apostle John, and to whom perhaps, as theangel of the church in Smyrna, John penned these words ofcommendation and encouragement: I know thy works andtribulation and poverty. . Be thou faithful unto death andI will give thee a crown of
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