...the great hymn of the Church, " praise Thee, oh God." As has been remarked by a modern historian, 1 "The figure of the martyr, as the Church knows it,...those who in that day "were strong and did exploits." Let me try briefly to bring before you the two mighty opposites in the strife—Antiochus Epiphanes,...

...became permanent were inherited by Christendom. The figure of the martyr (I am still quoting Mr. Bevan), as the Church knows it, dates from the persecution...subsequent martyrologies derive from the Jewish books which record the suffering of those who in that day were strong and did exploits.' The ' exploits' referred...