Gregory of Nyssa says, that they endured three days and three nights, this lingering death, which carried off their limbs one after another. The emperor sent him this message: From your mild and obligingdisposition, I flatter myself you are come to confirm my sentiments onthe point in question with your suffrage. But Ptolemy of Lucca, and other contemporary authors, sayexpressly in his forty-eighth, which also agrees with his whole history. The ardor of divine love which the saint breathes throughout thisletter, is as inflamed as the subject is extraordinary.
Certainsons of Belial among them carried their aversion so far as to minglepoison with his wine: but when, according to When he had done, the saint, without speaking one word to justify himself or his Order, continued his sermon with the greatest tranquillity and unconcern of mind. When theeight monks were entered his oratory, he exhorted them to preserve peaceand religiously observe the rules of regular discipline; ad riverTigris, being translated to glory by martyrdom, in the beginning of thepersecution raised by Sapor II.
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