The Second Century Being a Series of Reading in Church History for Lent And Ot
The Second Century Being a Series of Reading in Church History for Lent And Ot
James Pounder Whitney
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Then he offered himself up to God in a beautiful and almost Eucharistic Prayer, using, as he doubtless had been wont to use in his Eucharist itself, the words, "I praise Thee, I bless Thee, I glorify Thee through the everlasting and heavenly High Priest Jesus Christ, Thy beloved Son, through whom to Thee with Him and with the Holy Ghost be glory now and for evermore. " When he had said his Amen to this prayer for the Church Militant the fire was kindled, and strangely enough the flames bellied ...out like a sail and his body burnt not. When " the wicked ones " saw that they could not slay him by fire an executioner was ordered to drive a dagger into him: when he had done so, says a later editor of the letter, adding to the story of the eyewitness, there came out a dove and a stream of blood which put out the fire. So died, says the letter, " the most admirable Poly- carp, who in our time was an apostolic and prophetic teacher, Bishop of the Holy Church in Smyrna : for every word which he uttered with his mouth was fulfilled and will be fulfilled.
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