The Historic Martyrs of the Primitive Church

Various Early Christian Martyrs

Translated by Arthur James Mason

20 chapters · about 9 h

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CHAPTER I THE MARTYRS OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE

THE MARTYRS OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE

Our Lord warned His disciples that they would be made to suffer for His sake, as He Himself suffered. He told them that they would be delivered into prisons and brought before kings and rulers, that some of them would be scourged in the synagogues and persecuted from city to city, some of them killed and crucified. He said that they would be hated of all men; that they would be betrayed by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, and friends; that people would think to serve God by putting them to death. He exhorted them not to fear those who killed the body, and, after that, had no more that they could do. He promised that, when they were brought to trial, He would give them a mouth and wisdom which all their adversaries would be unable to gainsay or resist. He promised that the Holy Ghost Himself should speak by their lips. He said that whosoever confessed Him before men, He in turn would confess them before God and before the angels.

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