Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Methodius/Fragments/From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Fragments
by Methodius, translated by William R. Clark
From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs
158635Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Fragments — From His Discourse Concerning MartyrsWilliam R. ClarkMethodius

From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs.[1]

For martyrdom is so admirable and desirable, that the Lord, the Son of God Himself, honouring it, testified, “He thought it not robbery to be equal with God,”[2] that He might honour man to whom He descended with this gift.


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  1. From Theodoretus, Dial., 1, ᾽Ατρεπτ. Opp., ed. Sirmond, tom. iv. p. 37.
  2. Phil. ii. 5.