Historical Tracts of S Athanasius Archbishop of Alexandria Translated With N
Historical Tracts of S Athanasius Archbishop of Alexandria Translated With N
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Arian let us exhibit our usual audacity. " Accordingly they write L io Philagrius, and cause him after a while to go out with Gregory into Egypt. Whereupon the Bishops are severely 1 pp. 51, scourged and cast into chains 1 ; Sarapammon, for instance, Bishop and Confessor, they drive into banishment ; Potam- mon, Bishop and Confessor, who had also lost an eye in the persecution, they beat with stripes on the back so cruelly, that he appeared to be dead before they came to an end. In which condit...ion he was cast aside, and hardly after some hours, being carefully attended and fanned, he revived, God granting him his life ; but a short time after he died of the sufferings caused by the stripes, and attained in Christ to the glory of a second martyrdom. And besides these, how many monks were scourged, while Gregory sat by with Balacius the Duke ! how many Bishops were wounded ! how many \ irgins were beaten ! §•13. 5. After this the wretched Gregory called upon all men to 2 P- 8 « have communion with him 2 ; but if thou didst demand of them communion, they were not worthy of stripes : and if thou did scourge them as if evil persons, why didst thou ask it of them as if holy ?
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