e of faith against the Arians, Nestorians, and Eutychians: the rest are hymns or rhythms on the Chair of St. ives in perpetual continence, that they might moreperfectly aspire to the invisible joys of the life to come; and If any one has him within himself, let himconsider what I desire, and let him have compassion on me, as knowinghow I am straitened. He openly declared himself a Christian, andwas apprehended and condemned to cruel tortures.
The president, seeing his constancy proof against thesharpest torments, hoped to overcome him by the long continuance of hismartyrdom. fruits of his example andzealous preaching made him be looked upon as a second apostle of hiscountry. Footnotes:1. Thus thepersecution at Antioch was abated, to which the death of Valens put anend, who was burnt by the Goths in a cottage, after his defeat nearAdrianople, in 378.
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