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Others again, who vehemently protested that they had neither sacrificed nor intended to do so, were struck on the mouth, and their cries were drowned by the shouts around them, and they were hustled out of court. Out of all this number two only were put to death. Their names were Alphaeus and Zacchaeus. The latter, who was a deacon at Gadara, was so called by his friends * Eusebius, De Mart, PalatsL i. Cp. Texteund Untersuchungefty vol xiv., part 4, p. 3. THE MARTYRS OF PALESTINE 287 because, l...ike the publican of Jericho, he was little of stature, and because he was so earnestly desirous to see the LfOrd. He joyfully bore his testimony before the magistrate under torture, and was thrown for a night into the stocks. Alphaeus, who was a reader and exorcist at Caesarea itself, set himself strenuously to persuade his feebler brethren not to comply with the command to sacrifice. His unconcealed activity in this behalf soon brought him before the magistrate. There he delivered his beliefs with eloquence and freedom, was tortured, and cast into the stocks like Zacchaeus.
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