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Ignatius, To The Romans, 4.1
nan I write to all the churches, and I bid all men know, that of my own free will I die for God, unless ye should hinder me. I exhort you, be ye not an unseasonable kindness to me. Let me be given to the wild beasts, for through them I can attain unto God. I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found pure bread [of Christ].

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1. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 62c. I do. Well then, said he, if one of your chattels should kill itself when you had not indicated that you wished it to die, would you be angry with it and punish it if you could? Certainly, he replied. Then perhaps from this point of view it is not unreasonable to say that a man must not kill himself until god sends some necessity upon him, such as has now come upon me. That, said Cebes, seems sensible. But what you said just now, Socrates, that philosophers ought to be ready and willing to die, that seem
2. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 1.74, 2.14 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.74. nostra vehitur oratio ratio Camerar. ). sed haec haec add. V 2 et vetera sunt post vetera add. K 2 et a Graecis; Cato autem sic abiit e vita, ut causam moriendi moriundi K 2 nactum se esse gauderet. vetat enim domis ille in in om. V nobis deus iniussu hinc nos suo demigrare; cum vero causam iustam deus ipse dederit, ut tunc tum GV Socrati, nunc Catoni, saepe multis, ne ille me Dius Fidius vir sapiens laetus ex his tenebris in lucem illam excesserit, nec tamen ille ille Lb. ilia rup erit V vincla carceris ruperit—leges enim vetant—, sed tamquam a magistratu aut ab aliqua potestate legitima, sic a deo evocatus atque emissus exierit. Tota Plato Phaedon 80e enim philosophorum vita, ut ait idem, commentatio mortis est. 2.14. Dolorem existimo maxumum malorum omnium. Etiamne maius quam dedecus? decus X corr. K 2 R c V c Non audeo id dicere equidem, equidem Ha. quidem (id quidem dicere We. ) et me pudet tam cito de sententia esse deiectum. Magis esset esse X corr. K 2 R c? V c ) pudendum, si in sententia permaneres. quid enim minus est dignum minus est indignum K 1 minus te dignum V (te in r. V c ) quam tibi peius quicquam videri dedecore flagitio turpitudine? quae ut effugias, quis est non modo recusandus, sed non ultro adpetendus app. KV 2? subeundus excipiendus dolor? Ita prorsus existimo. non ultro ... 287,1 existimo Char. GL. I 211,24 (sed sub. et exc. d. est) non om. V 1 add. 2 quare ne sit sane sane om. K summum malum dolor, malum certe est. Videsne igitur, quantum breviter admonitus de doloris terrore deieceris? deiceris V 1 deieceris K sed alt. e del. 2
3. Clement of Rome, 1 Clement, 1.1, 65.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.1. Διὰ τὰς αἰφνιδίους καὶ ἐπαλλήλους γενομένας ἡμῖν συμφορὰς καὶ περιπτώσεις, C reads perista/seit shich L perhaps represente by impedimenta, and Knopf accepts this. βράδιον νομίζομεν ἐπιστροφὴν πεποιῆσθαι περὶ τῶν ἐπιζητουμένων παῤ ὑμῖν πραγμάτων, ἀγαπητοί, τῆς τε ἀλλοτρίας καὶ ξένης τοῖς ἐκλεκτοῖς τοῦ θεοῦ, μιαρᾶς καὶ ἀνοσίου στάσεως ἣν ὀλίγα πρόσωπα προπετῆ καὶ αὐθάδη ὑπάρχοντα εἰς τοσοῦτον ἀπονοίας ἐξέκαυσαν, ὥστε τὸ σεμνὸν καὶ περιβόητον καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἀξιαγάπητον ὄνομα ὑμῶν μεγάλως βλασφημηθῆναι. 65.1. Τοὺς δὲ ἀπεσταλμένους ἀφ̓ ἡμῶν Κλαύδιον Ἔφηβον καὶ Οὐαλέριον Βίτωνα σὺν καὶ Φορτουνάτῳ ἐν εἰρήνῃ μετὰ χαρᾶς ἐν τάχει ἀναπέμψατε πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ὅπως θᾶττον τὴν εὐκταίαν καὶ ἐπιποθήτην ἡμῖν εἰρήνην καὶ ὁμόνοιαν ἀπαγγέλλωσιν, εἰς τὸ τάχιον καὶ ἡμᾶς χαρῆναι περὶ τῆς εὐσταθείας ὑμῶν.
4. Epictetus, Discourses, 1.9.16-1.9.17 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
5. Ignatius, To Polycarp, 2.3, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1-8.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.3. The season requireth thee, as pilots require winds or as a storm-tossed mariner a haven, that it may attain unto God. Be sober, as God's athlete. The prize is incorruption and life eternal, concerning which thou also art persuaded. In all things I am devoted to thee -- I and my bonds which thou didst cherish. 3.1. Let not those that seem to be plausible and yet teach strange doctrine dismay thee. Stand thou firm, as an anvil when it is smitten. It is the part of a great athlete to receive blows and be victorious. But especially must we for God's sake endure all things, that He also may endure us. 3.1. For I know and believe that He was in the flesh even after the resurrection; 5.1. Flee evil arts, or rather hold thou discourse about these. Tell my sisters to love the Lord and to be content with their husbands in flesh and in spirit. In like manner also charge my brothers in the name of Jesus Christ to love their wives, as the Lord loved the Church. 5.1. But certain persons ignorantly deny Him, or rather have been denied by Him, being advocates of death rather than of the truth; and they have not been persuaded by the prophecies nor by the law of Moses, nay nor even to this very hour by the Gospel, nor by the sufferings of each of us severally; 6.1. Give ye heed to the bishop, that God also may give heed to you. I am devoted to those who are subject to the bishop, the presbyters, the deacons. May it be granted me to have my portion with them in the presence of God. Toil together one with another, struggle together, run together, suffer together, lie down together, rise up together, as God's stewards and assessors and ministers. 6.1. Let no man be deceived. Even the heavenly beings and the glory of the angels and the rulers visible and invisible, if they believe not in the blood of Christ [who is God], judgment awaiteth them also. He that receiveth let him receive. Let not office puff up any man; for faith and love are all in all, and nothing is preferred before them. 7.1. Seeing that the church which is in Antioch of Syria hath peace, as it hath been reported to me, through your prayers, I myself also have been the more comforted since God hath banished my care; if so be I may through suffering attain unto God, that I may be found a disciple through your intercession. 7.1. They therefore that gainsay the good gift of God perish by their questionings. But it were expedient for them to have love, that they may also rise again. 8.1. Since I have not been able to write to all the churches, by reason of my sailing suddenly from Troas to Neapolis, as the Divine will enjoineth, thou shalt write to the churches in front, as one possessing the mind of God, to the intent that they also may do this same thing -- let those who are able send messengers, and the rest letters by the persons who are sent by thee, that ye may be glorified by an ever memorable deed -- for this is worthy of thee. 8.1. [But] shun divisions, as the beginning of evils. Do ye all follow your bishop, as Jesus Christ followed the Father, and the presbytery as the Apostles; and to the deacons pay respect, as to God's commandment. Let no man do aught of things pertaining to the Church apart from the bishop. Let that be held a valid eucharist which is under the bishop or one to whom he shall have committed it. 8.2. I salute all by name, and especially the wife of Epitropus with her whole household and her children's. I salute Attalus my beloved. I salute him that shall be appointed to go to Syria. Grace shall be with him always, and with Polycarp who sendeth him. 8.2. Wheresoever the bishop shall appear, there let the people be; even as where Jesus may be, there is the universal Church. It is not lawful apart from the bishop either to baptize or to hold a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve, this is well-pleasing also to God; that everything which ye do may be sure and valid.
6. Ignatius, To The Philadelphians, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 3.1. Abstain from noxious herbs, which are not the husbandry of Jesus Christ, because they are not the planting of the Father. Not that I have found division among you, but filtering. 5.1. My brethren, my heart overfloweth altogether in love towards you; and rejoicing above measure I watch over your safety; yet not I, but Jesus Christ, wearing whose bonds I am the more afraid, because I am not yet perfected. But your prayer will make me perfect [unto God], that I may attain unto the inheritance wherein I have found mercy, taking refuge in the Gospel as the flesh of Jesus and in the Apostles as the presbytery of the Church. 6.1. But if any one propound Judaism unto you, here him not: for it is better to hear Christianity from a man who is circumcised than Judaism from one uncircumcised. But if either the one or the other speak not concerning Jesus Christ, I look on them as tombstones and graves of the dead, whereon are inscribed only the names of men. 7.2. Howbeit there were those who suspected me of saying this, because I knew beforehand of the division of certain persons. But He in whom I am bound is my witness that I learned it not from flesh of man; it was the preaching of the Spirit who spake on this wise; Do nothing without the bishop; keep your flesh as a temple of God; cherish union; shun divisions; be imitators of Jesus Christ, as He Himself also was of His Father. 9.1. The priests likewise were good, but better is the High-priest to whom is committed the holy of holies; for to Him alone are committed the hidden things of God; He Himself being the door of the Father, through which Abraham and Isaac and Jacob enter in, and the Prophets and the Apostles and the whole Church; all these things combine in the unity of God. 10.1. Seeing that in answer to your prayer and to the tender sympathy which ye have in Christ Jesus, it hath been reported to me that the church which is in Antioch of Syria hath peace, it is becoming for you, as a church of God, to appoint a deacon to go thither as God's ambassador, that he may congratulate them when they are assembled together, and may glorify the Name. 11.2. The love of the brethren which are in Troas saluteth you; from whence also I write to you by the hand of Burrhus, who was sent with me by the Ephesians and Smyrnaeans as a mark of honour. The Lord shall honour them, even Jesus Christ, on whom their hope is set in flesh and soul and spirit, by faith, by love, by concord. Fare ye well in Christ Jesus our common hope.
7. Ignatius, To The Ephesians, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Ignatius, To The Magnesians, 1.1, 1.2, 2, 2.1-3.2, 3, 5.2, 14, 14.1, 15, 15.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.1. When I learned the exceeding good order of your love in the ways of God, I was gladdened and I determined to address you in the faith of Jesus Christ.
9. Ignatius, To The Philadelphians, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 3.1. Abstain from noxious herbs, which are not the husbandry of Jesus Christ, because they are not the planting of the Father. Not that I have found division among you, but filtering. 5.1. My brethren, my heart overfloweth altogether in love towards you; and rejoicing above measure I watch over your safety; yet not I, but Jesus Christ, wearing whose bonds I am the more afraid, because I am not yet perfected. But your prayer will make me perfect [unto God], that I may attain unto the inheritance wherein I have found mercy, taking refuge in the Gospel as the flesh of Jesus and in the Apostles as the presbytery of the Church. 6.1. But if any one propound Judaism unto you, here him not: for it is better to hear Christianity from a man who is circumcised than Judaism from one uncircumcised. But if either the one or the other speak not concerning Jesus Christ, I look on them as tombstones and graves of the dead, whereon are inscribed only the names of men. 7.2. Howbeit there were those who suspected me of saying this, because I knew beforehand of the division of certain persons. But He in whom I am bound is my witness that I learned it not from flesh of man; it was the preaching of the Spirit who spake on this wise; Do nothing without the bishop; keep your flesh as a temple of God; cherish union; shun divisions; be imitators of Jesus Christ, as He Himself also was of His Father. 9.1. The priests likewise were good, but better is the High-priest to whom is committed the holy of holies; for to Him alone are committed the hidden things of God; He Himself being the door of the Father, through which Abraham and Isaac and Jacob enter in, and the Prophets and the Apostles and the whole Church; all these things combine in the unity of God. 10.1. Seeing that in answer to your prayer and to the tender sympathy which ye have in Christ Jesus, it hath been reported to me that the church which is in Antioch of Syria hath peace, it is becoming for you, as a church of God, to appoint a deacon to go thither as God's ambassador, that he may congratulate them when they are assembled together, and may glorify the Name. 11.2. The love of the brethren which are in Troas saluteth you; from whence also I write to you by the hand of Burrhus, who was sent with me by the Ephesians and Smyrnaeans as a mark of honour. The Lord shall honour them, even Jesus Christ, on whom their hope is set in flesh and soul and spirit, by faith, by love, by concord. Fare ye well in Christ Jesus our common hope.
10. Ignatius, To The Romans, 2.1-2.2, 4.2-4.3, 5.1-5.3, 6.1-6.3, 7.1-7.3, 9.1-9.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.1. For I would not have you to be men-pleasers but to please God, as indeed ye do please Him. For neither shall I myself ever find an opportunity such as this to attain unto God, nor can ye, if ye be silent, win the credit of any nobler work. For, if ye be silent and leave me alone, I am a word of God; but if ye desire my flesh, then shall I be again a mere cry. 2.2. [Nay] grant me nothing more than that I be poured out a libation to God, while there is still an altar ready; that forming yourselves into a chorus in love ye may sing to the Father in Jesus Christ, for that God hath vouchsafed that the bishop from Syria should be found in the West, having summoned him from the East. It is good to set from the world unto God, that I may rise unto Him. 4.2. Rather entice the wild beasts, that they may become my sepulchre and may leave no part of my body behind, so that I may not, when I am fallen asleep, be burdensome to any one. Then shall I be truly a disciple of Jesus Christ, when the world shall not so much as see my body. Supplicate the Lord for me, that through these instruments I may be found a sacrifice to God. 4.3. I do not enjoin you, as Peter and Paul did. They were Apostles, I am a convict; they were free, but I am a slave to this very hour. Yet if I shall suffer, then am I a freed-man of Jesus Christ, and I shall rise free in Him. Now I am learning in my bonds to put away every desire. 5.1. From Syria even unto Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only wax worse when they are kindly treated. Howbeit through their wrong doings I become more completely a disciple; yet am I not hereby justified. 5.2. May I have joy of the beasts that have been prepared for me; and I pray that I may find them prompt; nay I will entice them that they may devour me promptly, not as they have done to some, refusing to touch them through fear. Yea though of themselves they should not be willing while I am ready, I myself will force them to it. 5.3. Bear with me. I know what is expedient for me. Now am I beginning to be a disciple. May nought of things visible and things invisible envy me; that I may attain unto Jesus Christ. Come fire and cross and grapplings with wild beasts, [cuttings and manglings,] wrenching of bones, hacking of limbs, crushings of my whole body, come cruel tortures of the devil to assail me. Only be it mine to attain unto Jesus Christ. 6.1. The farthest bounds of the universe shall profit me nothing, neither the kingdoms of this world. It is good for me to die for Jesus Christ rather than to reign over the farthest bounds of the earth. Him I seek, who died on our behalf; Him I desire, who rose again [for our sake]. The pangs of a new birth are upon me. 6.2. Bear with me, brethren. Do not hinder me from living; do not desire my death. Bestow not on the world one who desireth to be God's, neither allure him with material things. Suffer me to receive the pure light. When I am come thither, then shall I be a man. 6.3. Permit me to be an imitator of the passion of my God. If any man hath Him within himself, let him understand what I desire, and let him have fellow- feeling with me, for he knoweth the things which straiten me. 7.1. The prince of this world would fain tear me in pieces and corrupt my mind to Godward. Let not any of you therefore who are near abet him. Rather stand ye on my side, that is on God's side. Speak not of Jesus Christ and withal desire the world. 7.2. Let not envy have a home in you. Even though I myself, when I am with you, should beseech you, obey me not; but rather give credence to these things which I write to you. [For] I write to you in the midst of life, yet lusting after death. My lust hath been crucified, and there is no fire of material longing in me, but only water living +and speaking+ in me, saying within me, Come to the Father. 7.3. I have no delight in the food of corruption or in the delights of this life. I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Christ who was of the seed of David; and for a draught I desire His blood, which is love incorruptible. 9.2. But for myself I am ashamed to be called one of them; for neither am I worthy, being the very last of them and an untimely birth: but I have found mercy that I should be some one, if so be I shall attain unto God. 9.3. My spirit saluteth you, and the love of the churches which received me in the name of Jesus Christ, not as a mere wayfarer: for even those churches which did not lie on my route after the flesh went before me from city to city.
11. Ignatius, To The Smyrnaeans, 1.2, 2, 3, 3.3, 4.2, 8.1, 8.1-9.1, 8.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
12. Ignatius, To The Trallians, 2.2, 3.2, 4.2, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1-12.2, 13.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.2. It is therefore necessary, even as your wont is, that ye should do nothing without the bishop; but be ye obedient also to the presbytery, as to the Apostles of Jesus Christ our hope; for if we live in Him, we shall also be found in Him. 3.2. And I am persuaded that ye are so minded as touching these matters: for I received the ensample of your love, and I have it with me, in the person of your bishop, whose very demeanour is a great lesson, while his gentleness is power -- a man to whom I think even the godless pay reverence. 4.2. For though I desire to suffer, yet I know not whether I am worthy: for the envy of the devil is unseen indeed by many, but against me it wages the fiercer war. So then I crave gentleness, whereby the prince of this world is brought to nought. 10.1. But if it were as certain persons who are godless, that is unbelievers, say, that He suffered only in semblance, being themselves mere semblance, why am I in bonds? And why also do I desire to fight with wild beasts? So I die in vain. Truly then I lie against the Lord. 11.1. Shun ye therefore those vile offshoots that gender a deadly fruit, whereof if a man taste, forthwith he dieth. For these men are not the Father's planting: for if they had been, they would have been seen to be branches of the Cross, and their fruit imperishable -- the Cross whereby He through His passion inviteth us, being His members. Now it cannot be that a head should be found without members, seeing that God promiseth union, and this union is Himself. 12.1. I salute you from Smyrna, together with the churches of God that are present with me; men who refreshed me in all ways both in flesh and in spirit. 12.2. My bonds exhort you, which for Jesus Christ's sake I bear about, entreating that I may attain unto God; abide ye in your concord and in prayer one with another. For it becometh you severally, and more especially the presbyters, to cheer the soul of your bishop unto the honour of the Father [and to the honour] of Jesus Christ and of the Apostles. 13.1. The love of the Smyrnaeans and Ephesians saluteth you. Remember in your prayers the church which is in Syria; whereof [also] I am not worthy to be called a member, being the very last of them.
13. New Testament, 1 Peter, 2.17 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.17. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
14. New Testament, Apocalypse, 6.9-6.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 6.9. When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. 6.10. They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?
15. New Testament, Ephesians, 6.18 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 6.18. with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
16. New Testament, Philippians, 2.17 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.17. Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
17. New Testament, Luke, 24.37-24.39 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 24.37. But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 24.38. He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? 24.39. See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.
18. Anon., Marytrdom of Polycarp, 1.1, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.2, 13.2, 14.1-14.2, 16.2, 17.1, 17.3, 18.2-18.3, 19.1, 20.1, 22.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.1. 1 We write to you, brethren, the story of the martyrs and of the blessed Polycarp, who put an end to the persecution by his martyrdom as though adding the seal. For one might almost say that all that had gone before happened in order that the Lord might show to us from above a martyrdom in accordance with the Gospel. 3.1. 1 But thanks be to God, for he had no power over any. For the most noble Germanicus encouraged their fears by the endurance which was in him, and he fought gloriously with the wild beasts. For when the Pro-Consul wished to persuade him and bade him have pity on his youth, he violently dragged the beast towards himself, wishing to be released more quickly from their unrighteous and lawless life. 5.1. 1 But the most wonderful Polycarp, when he first heard it, was not disturbed, but wished to remain in the city; but the majority persuaded him to go away quietly, and he went out quietly to a farm, not far distant from the city, and stayed with a few friends, doing nothing but pray night and day for all, and for the Churches throughout the world, as was his custom. 6.1. 1 And when the searching for him persisted he went to another farm; and those who were searching for him came up at once, and when they did not find him, they arrested young slaves, and one of them confessed under torture. 7.2. 2 So when he heard that they had arrived he went down and talked with them, while those who were present wondered at his age and courage, and whether there was so much haste for the arrest of an old man of such a kind. Therefore he ordered food and drink to be set before them at that hour, whatever they should wish, and he asked them to give him an hour to pray without hindrance. 13.2. 2 Now when the fire was ready he put off all his clothes, and loosened his girdle and tried also to take off his shoes, though he did not do this before, because each of the faithful was always zealous, which of them might the more quickly touch his flesh. For he had been treated with all respect because of his noble life, even before his martyrdom. 14.1. 1 So they did not nail him, but bound him, and he put his hands behind him and was bound, as a noble ram out of a great flock, for an oblation, a whole burnt offering made ready and acceptable to God; and he looked up to heaven and said: "O Lord God Almighty, Father of thy beloved and blessed Child, Jesus Christ, through Whom we have received full knowledge of thee, the God of Angels and powers, and of all creation, and of the whole family of the righteous, who live before thee! 14.2. 2 I bless thee, that Thou hast granted me this day and hour, that I may share, among the number of the martyrs, in the cup of thy Christ, for the Resurrection to everlasting life, both of soul and body in the immortality of the Holy Spirit. And may I, to-day, be received among them before Thee, as a rich and acceptable sacrifice, as Thou, the God who lies not and is truth, hast prepared beforehand, and shown forth, and fulfilled. 16.2. 2 And of the elect was he indeed one, the wonderful martyr, Polycarp, who in our days was an apostolic and prophetic teacher, bishop of the Catholic Church in Smyrna. For every word which he uttered from his mouth both was fulfilled and will be fulfilled. 17.1. 1 But the jealous and envious evil one who resists the family of the righteous, when he saw the greatness of his martyrdom, and his blameless career from the beginning, and that he was crowned with the crown of immortality, and had carried off the unspeakable prize, took care that not even his poor body should be taken away by us, though many desired to do so, and to have fellowship with his holy flesh. 17.3. 3 For him we worship as the Son of God, but the martyrs we love as disciples and imitators of the Lord; and rightly, because of their unsurpassable affection toward their own King and Teacher. God grant that we too may be their companions and fellow-disciples. 18.2. 2 Thus we, at last, took up his bones, more precious than precious stones, and finer than gold, and put them where it was meet. 18.3. 3 There the Lord will permit us to come together according to our power in gladness and joy, and celebrate the birthday of his martyrdom, both in memory of those who have already contested, and for the practice and training of those whose fate it shall be. 19.1. 1 Such was the lot of the blessed Polycarp, who though he was, together with those from Philadelphia, the twelfth martyr in Smyrna, is alone especially remembered by all, so that he is spoken of in every place, even by the heathen. He was not only a famous teacher, but also a notable martyr, whose martyrdom all desire to imitate, for it followed the Gospel of Christ. 20.1. 1 You, indeed, asked that the events should be explained to you at length, but we have for the present explained them in summary by our brother Marcion; therefore when you have heard these things, send the letter to the brethren further on, that they also may glorify the Lord, who takes his chosen ones from his own servants. 22.1. 1 We bid you God-speed, brethren, who walk according to the Gospel, in the word of Jesus Christ (with whom be glory to God and the Father and the Holy Spirit), for the salvation of the Holy Elect, even as the blessed Polycarp suffered martyrdom, in whose footsteps may it be granted us to be found in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
19. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 3.3.3, 5.28.4 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
altars	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
amphitheater	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
angels, heavenly mansion of	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
antioch	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
apostolic fathers, generally	Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 518
arena	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
asia minor, christianity in	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
asia minor, literature of	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
asia minor	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
athletes	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 236
audience	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
authoritative tradition, disputed	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
authority	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
barnabas, letter of	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 202
beast	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 130
bible	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 236
bishops, as choir leader	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
body, mutilation of	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
center	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 130
chorus	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
christ-believers	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
codex tchacos, martyrdom	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
codex tchacos, sacrifice	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
colonialism, colonial, colonized, postcolonial	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
colonialism, colonial, colonized	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
community	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17, 130
congregations, and their leaders	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
controversies	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
corpse	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
dancing	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
death	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 17, 130
devotio	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
diocletian	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
disciple	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
disciples, visions of	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
discipline, mental	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 238
dolor	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 238
entertainment	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
ephesians	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
epinoia, the eucharist	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
eucharist	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 130
execution	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
faith	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
fate, of ignatius	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
fiction	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
food	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
games, and ignatius'	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
god	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 130
harmony (συμφωνία), harmonization, musical	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
heaven, visions of altars and sacrifices in	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
history	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
human sacrifice	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
ignatios of antioch	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 202
ignatius, dating of letters	Bird and Harrower, The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (2021) 210
ignatius, proto-trinitarian formula	Bird and Harrower, The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (2021) 164
ignatius of antioch, judgment on	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
ignatius of antioch, letters	Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 518
ignatius of antioch, on martyrdom	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
ignatius of antioch, writings	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
ignatius of antioch (martyr)	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 17, 130
imitation	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
irenaeus, against heresies	Bird and Harrower, The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (2021) 210
jesus, and ignatius	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
jesus, as sacrifice	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
jesus, jesus christ	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
journeys	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
judaism, christian criticism of	Esler, The Early Christian World (2000) 518
letters	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
libation	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
martyrdom, martyr, desire	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 17
martyrdom, martyr, fiction, fictional, fictionalized	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
martyrdom, martyr, imagination, imagined	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
martyrdom, martyr, roman empire, imperial power	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 130
martyrdom, martyr, sacrifice	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
martyrdom, martyr, trauma, traumatic experience	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
martyrdom	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
martyrdom of polycarp, depiction of martyrdom	Bird and Harrower, The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (2021) 245
martyrdom of polykarpos	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 202
martyrs , ignatius of antioch	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 236, 238
meal, sacral meal	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
memory	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
nature	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
necropolitics (achilles mbembe)	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
noble death	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 236
obedience	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
origen	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
passion, passion account	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
pathos, πάθος	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 236
paul, as model	Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 55
performance, musical	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
periphery	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
persecution, diocletian	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
persecution	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
polycarp, and church order	Bird and Harrower, The Cambridge Companion to the Apostolic Fathers (2021) 164
polykarpos of smyrna	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 202
power	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 130
proto-orthodoxy	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
rational choice theory	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 236
rationality	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 238
refrain	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
roman church	Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (2021) 202
romans, roman empire	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
romans	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
rome	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196; Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 17, 130
sacrifice, martyrdom as	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
sacrifice, sacrificial	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8, 130
sacrifices, martyrdom	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
sacrifices, of humans	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
sacrifices, of jesus	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
sacrifices, the eucharist	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326
self, self-sacrificial	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
self	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17, 130
shame	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
silence	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
singing, in unison	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
socrates	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 238
soldiers	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
sovereignty	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
space, spatial	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
spatiotemporality, spatiotemporal	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
stage	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
story	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
subjectivity	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
suffering, exemplary	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
suicide	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
symbols	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
syria	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
teaching	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
time	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
tomb	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 130
torture, choice to endure	Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 238
tragedy	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer, Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity (2022) 196
trauma, traumatic	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 17
trial	Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 8
visions, of heavenly altars and sacrifices	Scopello, The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas (2008) 326