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[8964] [Who ministered to their fellow-Christians in prison, for the testimony of Jesus. What follows is a sad picture of social life among heathens.]
[8968] [He is said to have perished circa a.d. 170.]
[8969] [After the defeat and suicide of Albinus, at Lyons, many persons, some of Senatorial rank, were cruelly put to death.]
[8970] Cap. lv. He calls her fortissima martyr, and she is one of only two or three contemporary sufferers whom he mentioned by name.
[8971] [In the De Anima, cap. lv. as see above.]
[8972] [Yet see the sermons of St. Augustine (if indeed his) on the Passion of these Saints. Sermon 281 and 282, opp. Tom. v. pp. 1284–5.]
[8973] Hist. of Christianity, vol. i. ch. viii.
[8974] [Both Perpetua and Felicitas were evidently Montanistic in character and impressions, but, the fact that they have never been reputed other than Catholic, goes far to explain Tertullian’s position for years after he had withdrawn from communion with the vacillating Victor.]
[8975] Joel ii. 28, 29. [The quotation here is a note of Montanistic prepossessions in the writer.]
[8976] [Routh notes this as undoubted evidence of a Montanistic author. Reliquiæ, Vol. I. p. 455.]
[8977] [St. Augustine takes pains to remind us that these Acta are not canonical. De Anima, cap. 2, opp. Tom. x. p. 481.]
[8978] “Refrigeravit,” Græce ἀνέπαυσεν, scil. “requiem dedit.”
[8979] i.e. the grace of martyrdom.
[8980] Sibi vacabant.
[8981] Commeatus.
[8982] “Sustineo,” Græce ὑπομένω, scil. “exspecto.”
[8983] This was an ordinary mode of picturing our Lord in the oratories and on the sacred vessels of those days. [This passage will recall the allegory of Hermas, with which the martyr was doubtless familiar.]
[8984] “Catasta,” a raised platform on which the martyrs were placed either for trial or torture.
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