⁸³ See an ingenious conuecture in Bishop Wordsworth's Hippolytus and the Church of Rome, p. 318, C.

¹ Some read, "Philadelphia," but on inferior authority. Philomelium was a city of Phrygia.

² The word in the original is paroikiaij, from which the English "parishes" is derived.

³ Literally, "who are more pious."

⁴ The account now returns to the illustration of the statement made in the first sentence.

⁵ 1 Cor. ii. 9.

⁶ Or, "illustriously."

⁷ Or, "said to him."

⁸ Literally, "the nobleness of the God-loving and God-fearing race of Christians."

⁹ Comp. Matt. x. 23.

¹⁰ It was the duty of the Irenach to apprehend all seditious troublers of the public peace.

¹¹ Some think that those magistrates bore this name that were elected by lot.

¹² That is, on Friday.

¹³ Comp. Matt. xxvi. 55.

¹⁴ Or, "in."

¹⁵ Some read "the Lord"

¹⁶ Comp. Matt vi. 10; Acts xxi. 14.

¹⁷ Or, "diligence."

¹⁸ Jacobson reads, "and [marvelling] that they had used so great diligence to capture," etc.

¹⁹ Or, "be silent."

²⁰ Jacobson deems these words an interpolation.

²¹ Or, "Caesar is Lord," all the mss. having kurioj instead of kurie, as usually printed.

²² Or, "terrible."

²³ Or, "cast him down" simply, the following words being, as above, an interpolation.

²⁴ Or, "sprained his ankle."

²⁵ Or, "not turning back."

²⁶ Referring the words to the heathen, and not to the Christians, as was desired.

²⁷ Or, "an account of Christianity."

²⁸ Comp. Rom. xiii. 1-7; Tit. iii. 1.

²⁹ Or, "of my making any defence to them."

³⁰ Literally, "repentance from things better to things worse is a change impossible to us."

³¹ That is, to leave this world for a better.

³² Some read, "ungodliness," but the above seems preferable.

³³ The Asiarchs were those who superintended all arrangements connected with the games in the several provinces.

³⁴ Literally, "the baiting of dogs."

³⁵ Literally, "good behavior."

³⁶ Some think this implies that Polycarp's skin was believed to possess a miraculous efficacy.

³⁷ Comp. Matt. xx. 22, xxvi. 39; Mark x. 38.

³⁸ Literally, "in a fat," etc., [or, "in a rich"].

³⁹ Literally, "he not false and true God."

⁴⁰ Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., iv. 15) has preserved a great portion of this Martyrium, but in a text considerably differing from that we have followed. Here, instead of "and," he has "in the Holy Ghost."

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