From the Discourse on the Resurrection · Fragments

From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs

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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,"²⁹⁸⁰ that He might honour man to whom He descended with this gift.

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From Theodoretus, Dial., 1, 'Atrept. Opp., ed. Sirmond, tom. iv. p. 37.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.