The Martyrdom and Resurrection of Stephen
The blessed Stephen received glory. Before the passion, he always predicted his own bodily death, claiming that he would be handed over to those around the high priests, and announcing the trophy of the cross. But after the passion, having risen from the dead on the third day, while the disciples were doubting that he had been raised, he appeared to them with the same body; he confesses to having all flesh with bones, and subdues to their eyes those sides having been pierced, and shows them the marks of the nails.
And it is possible to expose their impious calumny through a few things; for especially, if not for the sake of the salvation of men, he willingly gave his body to death's slaughter. First, they surround him with much weakness, because he was not able to check the onset of the enemies.
Greek
δόξαν ὁ μακάριος Στέφανος. 13 Πρὸ μὲν τοῦ πάθους ἑκάστοτε τὸν σωματικὸν αὑτοῦ προὔλεγε θάνατον, τοῖς ἀμφὶ τοὺς ἀρχιερέας ἐκδοθήσεσθαι φάσκων, καὶ τὸ τοῦ σταυροῦ τρόπαιον ἀπαγγέλλων. Μετὰ δὲ τὸ πάθος, τριταῖος ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναστὰς, ἐνδοιαζόντων αὐτὸν ἐγηγέρθαι τῶν μαθητῶν, ἐπιφανεὶς αὐτοῖς αὐτῷ σώματι, σάρκα μὲν ἅπασαν σὺν ὀστέοις ἔχειν ὁμολογεῖ, ταῖς δὲ ὄψεσι τούτων τὰς τετρωμένας ὑποβάλλων πλευρὰς, καὶ τοὺς τύπους αὐτοῦ ὑποδεικνύει τῶν ἥλων. 14 ∆ι' ὀλίγων δὲ ἔστιν ἐλέγξαι τὴν ἀσεβῆ συκοφαντίαν αὐτῶν· μάλιστα μὲν γὰρ εἰ μὴ τῆς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἕνεκεν σωτηρίας εἰς τὴν τοῦ θανάτου σφαγὴν τὸ ἴδιον ἑκουσίως ἐξεδίδου σῶμα. Πρῶτον μὲν πολλὴν αὐτῷ περιάπτουσιν ἀδυναμίαν, ὅτι μὴ οἷός τ' ἐγένετο τὴν τῶν πολεμίων ὁρμὴν ἐπισχεῖν.
About this text
On the Soul against the Arians attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.
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Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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