She endeavored topersuade him that to embrace such an Order, against his parents' advice,could not be the call of heaven; adding all manner of reasons, fondcaresses, entreaties, and tears. s condition his body, pierced all over with sharp spikes, armedlike a porcupine, should be rolled on the ground. service, andhis holy commandments; the obligation without bounds which all men haveof loving God, the incomp for temporal things, so that a man is disposed withpleasure to part with the whole world and life itself.
Jerom, (in Isai. Athanasius at length abandoned and condemned him. Ten days after arrived Cynegius, having with him a consular man and aduke, or general, with a strong guard of soldiers, besides the civilmagistrates of the country. g toleave Polyeuctus in the darkness of Paganism, was so successful in hisendeavors to induce him to embrace Christianity,
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