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APPENDIX 51 [5] So many references have been made in the foregoing pages to Tertullian’s Address to Martyrs that it has been thought well to include that inspiriting Tract in this volume, and also to add some passages from the Passion of St. Perpetua which throw especial light upon the circumstances under which early Christian martyrdoms took place. The date of the Address and of the African martyrdoms is A.D. 203; the scene, Karthage. The translation of the Address has been made from the text edited by the present writer for the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1893 ; of the Passion from Dr. Armitage Robinson’s edition, Texts and Studies, i. 2, Cambridge, 1891. ------------------
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1. p. 51 n 1. Tertullian’s use of “martyrs” for those who were destined to suffer, but had not yet done so, is in accordance with the Greek use of the word. See above, p. 45. They were “witnesses.” Later a distinction was drawn between those witnesses who suffered but escaped death (“ confessors “) and those who paid the extreme penalty (“ martyrs “). |
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