The Martydom of St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (2.2)

urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1484.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.2

Refs	`{'start': {'reference': '2.2', 'human_reference': 'Book 2 Chapter 2'}}`
Ancestors	`[{'reference': '2'}]`
Children	`[]`

plain text • XML

For who would not admire their nobility and patience and love of their Master? For some were torn by scourging until the mechanism of their flesh was seen even to the lower veins and arteries, and they endured so that even the bystanders pitied them and mourned. And some even reached such a pitch of nobility that none of them groaned or wailed, showing to all of us that at that hour of their torture the noble martyrs of Christ were absent from the flesh, or rather that the Lord was standing by and talking with them.

For	1	w	3
who	1	w	6
would	1	w	11
not	1	w	14
admire	1	w	20
their	1	w	25
nobility	1	w	33
and	1	w	36
patience	1	w	44
and	2	w	47
love	1	w	51
of	1	w	53
their	2	w	58
Master	1	w	64
For	2	w	68
some	1	w	72
were	1	w	76
torn	1	w	80
by	1	w	82
scourging	1	w	91
until	1	w	96
the	3	w	99
mechanism	1	w	108
of	2	w	110
their	3	w	115
flesh	1	w	120
was	1	w	123
seen	1	w	127
even	1	w	131
to	2	w	133
the	5	w	136
lower	1	w	141
veins	1	w	146
and	3	w	149
arteries	1	w	157
and	4	w	161
they	1	w	165
endured	1	w	172
so	2	w	174
that	1	w	178
even	2	w	182
the	7	w	185
bystanders	1	w	195
pitied	1	w	201
them	1	w	205
and	6	w	208
mourned	1	w	215
And	1	w	219
some	2	w	223
even	3	w	227
reached	1	w	234
such	1	w	238
a	15	w	239
pitch	1	w	244
of	3	w	246
nobility	2	w	254
that	2	w	258
none	1	w	262
of	4	w	264
them	2	w	268
groaned	1	w	275
or	4	w	277
wailed	1	w	283
showing	1	w	291
to	3	w	293
all	1	w	296
of	5	w	298
us	1	w	300
that	3	w	304
at	5	w	306
that	4	w	310
hour	1	w	314
of	6	w	316
their	4	w	321
torture	1	w	328
the	11	w	331
noble	1	w	336
martyrs	1	w	343
of	7	w	345
Christ	1	w	351
were	2	w	355
absent	1	w	361
from	1	w	365
the	12	w	368
flesh	2	w	373
or	6	w	376
rather	1	w	382
that	5	w	386
the	14	w	389
Lord	1	w	393
was	2	w	396
standing	1	w	404
by	3	w	406
and	8	w	409
talking	1	w	416
with	1	w	420
them	3	w	424