Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Methodius/Fragments/From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs

by Methodius

From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs.^[1]

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,”^[2] that He might honour man to whom He descended with this gift.

Footnotes

1. From Theodoretus, Dial., 1, ᾽Ατρεπτ. Opp., ed. Sirmond, tom. iv. p. 37.
2. Phil. ii. 5.