ſe obmutuit: nec os ſuū aperuit. Agas omnipotenti deogr̄as ꝙ te tali agoni īmiſerit: ꝙ illū facile ꝯſeq̄ris. Undecū Alexandrū paciētiſſime in tormētis agentē aſpiceretp̄ſes: et interrogaſſet cur nullā vocē emitteret: reſpōdit:ꝙ tēpore orationis chriſtianꝰ hō cū deo et nō cū alio lo-quit̉. Uidebat̉ ſimilit̓ Barco ⁊ Marcelliano ob xp̄i de-ſideriū: ꝙ cū tormentis cruciarent̉ nūqͣꝫ tam bene epulatifuerint: ſcientes ꝙ qͥ odit animā ſuā ꝓpter chriſtū in vitāeternā inueniet eā. Sed vt manifeſtū diaboli opꝰ cogno-ſcās: illudqꝫ ideo effugias aduerte: ꝙ q̄ antiquis tēporibꝰꝯtra martyres bella inducebat iſto in tēpore eodē mō eteiſdē ꝟbis cōtra nos inſurgit. Nam cōſueuerūt infidelesiſti poſtqͣꝫ huiuſmodi homines ꝓfitentes Ieſu chriſti no-men in cuſtodias per aliquos dies habuerint: anteqͣꝫ ſen-tentiā mortis ferant omni cum diligentia ⁊ ſollicitudinetemptare: ſi ad eoꝝ ꝑfidiā illos cōuertere poſſint. Et ſi hominē ſenſatū perpēdūt: nō ſolū tormētis et penis mortēminant̉: ſꝫ honores ꝓmittūt diuerſos ⁊ munera: vt quospeniſ terrere diffidūt/ illecebris ⁊ tēporaliū ꝓmiſſione ꝓpoſſe ſeducāt. Sed qͥs nō perpēdet eadē antiquū hoſteꝫalijs tꝑoribꝰ ⁊ eadē via exercuiſſe? Offerebat itaqꝫ Traianus Ignatio ſummū inter om̄es idoloꝝ ſacerdotes pōti-ficatū: ſi ad deoꝝ culturā cōuerti vellet. Obtulerūt ⁊ plures imꝑatores ⁊ p̄ſides ml̓tis martyribꝰ pōtificatꝰ honorēet munera alia: ſi xp̄m relinquēdo ſua p̄cepta ſequerent̉.Que illi vt lutū ⁊ feces xp̄i amore ſpreuerūt. Nam vt ſa-piēs Salomon in ſpū p̄uidit: aque ml̓te nō poterūt illoꝝextinguere charitatē: nec flumina obruere illā. Quare ettu cautꝰ ab eiſdē teip̄m immunē atqꝫ ſecurū redde. Et vtvnico exēplo firmari etiā poſſis narrare nō pigebit qͣlitertꝑe Diocletiani ⁊ Maximiniani imꝑatoꝝ cōp̄hēſus interalios xp̄ianos fuit magne prudētie vir btūs Theodorusin ciuitate cyronēſi ꝑtiū orientaliū: ⁊ ſb̓ p̄poſito Brinchaductꝰ ad p̄ſidē Publiū in regiōe que appellat̉ Marmori-tanoꝝ. Cui p̄ſes exqͥſita minabat̉ tormenta ſi principumh ij

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