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Τόν γε μὴν Ῥωμαίων αὐτοκράτορα Ἀλέξανδρον τρισὶν ἐπὶ δέκα ἔτεσι τὴν ἀρχὴν διανύσαντα Μαξιμῖνος Καῖσαρ διαδέχεται, ὃς δὴ κατὰ κότον τὸν πρὸς τὸν Ἀλεξάνδρου οἶκον, ἐκ πλειόνων πιστῶν συνεστῶτα, διωγμὸν ἐγείρας, τοὺς τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ἄρχοντας μόνους ὡς αἰτίους τῆς κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον διδασκαλίας ἀναιρεῖσθαι προστάττει. τότε καὶ Ὠριγένης τὸν περὶ μαρτυρίου συντάττει, Ἀμβροσίῳ κ·αὶ Πρωτοκτήτῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ τῆς ἐν Καισαρείᾳ παροικίας ἀναθεὶς τὸ σύγγραμμα, ὅτι δὴ ἄμφω περίστασις οὐχ ἡ τυχοῦσα ἐν τῷ διωγμῷ κατειλήφει, ἐν ᾗ καὶ διαπρέψαι κατέχει λόγος ἐν ὁμολογίᾳ τοὺς ἄνδρας, οὐ πλείονος ἢ τριετοῦς χρόνου τῷ Μαξιμίνῳ διαγενομένου. σεσημείωται δὲ τουτονὶ τοῦ διωγμοῦ τὸν καιρὸν ἔν τε τῷ δευτέρῳ καὶ εἰκοστῷ τῶν εἰς τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην ἐξηγητικῶν καὶ ἐν διαφόροις ἐπιστολαῖς Ὠριγένης.
羅馬皇帝亞歷山大執政十三年告終後，馬克西明該撒繼承了他；他出於對亞歷山大家室的怨恨——那家室多半由信徒組成——便興起逼迫，吩咐單把眾教會的領袖處死，視他們為照福音施教的禍首。也是在那時候，俄利根寫成了論殉道的著作，將那書題獻給安波羅修和該撒利亞會眾中的長老普羅托克提託；因為在那逼迫中，他們二人都遭遇了非比尋常的患難，據記載，他們在所作的認信中甚為卓著，而馬克西明的統治不過維持了三年之久。俄利根在他論約翰福音的解經第二十二卷，以及在各封書信中，記下了這場逼迫的這段時期。
Now when Alexander, the Roman emperor, had brought his rule to an end after thirteen years, Maximin Caesar succeeded him; who, out of spite against the house of Alexander, which was composed for the most part of believers, raised a persecution, ordering that the rulers of the churches alone be put to death, as being responsible for the teaching according to the gospel. At that time also Origen composed his work On Martyrdom, dedicating the treatise to Ambrose and to Protoctetus, a presbyter of the community at Caesarea; for no ordinary distress had overtaken them both in the persecution, in which it is recorded that these men were distinguished for their confession, the reign of Maximin lasting no more than three years. Origen has noted this particular time of the persecution in the twenty-second of his Expositions on the Gospel according to John, and in various letters.