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Καὶ τοιοῦτος μὲν ὁ ἀγὼν τῶν κατὰ Τυρὸν τοὺς ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας ἄθλους ἐνδειξαμένων Αἰγυπτίων. θαυμάσειε δ ἄν τις αὐτῶν καὶ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκείας γῆς μαρτυρήσαντας, ἔνθα μυρίοι τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἄνδρες ἅμα γυναιξὶ καὶ παισὶν, ὑπὲρ τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν διδασκαλίας τοῦ προσκαίρου ζῆν καταφρονήσαντες, διαφόρους ὑπέμειναν θανάτους, οἱ μὲν αὐτῶν μετὰ ξεσμοὺς καὶ στρεβλώσεις μάστιγάς τε χαλεπωτάτας καὶ μυρίας ἄλλας ποικίλας καὶ φρικτὰς ἀκοῦσαι βασάνους πυρὶ παραδοθέντες, οἶ δὲ πελάγει καταβροχισθέντες, ἄλλοι δὲ εὐθαρσῶς τοῖς ἀποτέμνουσι τὰς ἑαυτῶν προτείναντες κεφαλὰς, οἶ δὲ καὶ ἐναποθανόντες ταῖς βασάνοις, ἕτεροι δὲ λιμῷ διαφθαρέντες, καὶ ἄλλοι πάλιν ἀνασκολοπισθέντες, οἱ μὲν κατὰ τὸ σύνηθες τοῖς κακούργοις, οἱ δὲ καὶ χειρόνως ἀνάπαλιν κατωκάρα προσηλωθέντες, τηρούμενοί τε ζῶντες, εἰσότε καὶ ἐπ αὐτῶν ἰκρίων λιμῷ διαφθαρεῖεν.
And such was the conflict of those Egyptians who at Tyre displayed their struggles for the sake of godliness. But one might also marvel at those of them who bore witness in their own land, where countless numbers of men, together with women and children, despising the present life for the sake of the teaching of our Saviour, endured diverse deaths: some of them, after tearings and rackings and most grievous scourgings and countless other varied and dreadful tortures, were delivered to the fire; others were drowned in the sea; others courageously stretched out their own heads to those who beheaded them; others died under the tortures; others perished by famine; and others again were impaled, some in the manner customary for criminals, and others, worse still, were nailed up head-downward and kept alive, until they should perish of hunger upon the very gibbets.
在推羅為著敬虔顯出爭戰的那些埃及人的鬥爭，就是這樣。但人也可為他們中間那些在本鄉作見證的人驚奇；在那裡，無數的男人，連同婦女孩童，為著我們救主的教訓而輕看今生，忍受了各樣的死法：他們中有的在撕割、拷架、極殘酷的鞭笞和無數其他各樣可怕得不忍聽聞的酷刑之後，被付諸火焰；有的被沉於海中；有的勇敢地向斬首者伸出自己的頭；有的死在酷刑之下；有的因飢餓而亡；又有的被釘在木樁上，有的照對待罪犯的常例，有的更慘，被倒釘頭朝下，留著活命，直到他們在那架上因飢餓而死。