On Martyrs (complete)
Greek text: Bonwetsch, GCS 27 (Greek text and German translation of the Old Slavonic: G. N. Bonwetsch, Methodius (GCS 27, 1917); OCR made for this site).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 1
1Bonwetsch GCS 27:520
Ἐκ τοῦ περὶ μαρτύρων λόγου. Ι. οὕτω γὰρ θαυμαστὸν καὶ περισπούδαστόν ἐστι τὸ μαρτύριον. ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ, τιμῶν αὐτὸ ἐμαρτύρησεν, „οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγησάμενος τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ“, ἵνα καὶ τούτῳ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τῷ χαρίσματι εἰς ὃν κατέβη στέψῃ.
Ek tou peri martyrōn logou. I. houtō gar thaumaston kai perispoudaston esti to martyrion. hoti autos ho kyrios Iēsous Christos, ho huios tou theou, timōn auto emartyrēsen, „ouch harpagmon hēgēsamenos to einai isa theǭ“, hina kai toutǭ ton anthrōpon tǭ charismati eis hon katebē stepsę̄.
From the discourse On the Martyrs.
I. For martyrdom is so wonderful and so worth striving for that the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the Son of God, honoring it, bore witness, “not counting it robbery to be equal with God,” so that he might crown with this gift too the human being to whom he came down.
Phil 2:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Phil 2:7 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ himself honored martyrdom by bearing witness, though equal with God, to crown humanity with this gift.
- Methodius, On the Martyrs, fragments (Bonwetsch, GCS 27, 1917; Tesseract OCR, clear slips corrected by logged corrections). Compared with ANF 6.
- “Bore witness” (ἐμαρτύρησεν) also means “was martyred.” Phil 2:6 is quoted.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip of the digital text corrected): Ek ΤΟΥ͂ ΡΕΡῚ MAPTYP@N ἈΟΓΘῪ I. → Ἐκ τοῦ περὶ μαρτύρων λόγου. Ι.; περισπούίδαστόν → περισπούδαστόν; »οὐχ ἀρπαγμὸνε ἡγησάμενος 5TO εἶναι ἴσα θεῷς → „οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγησάμενος τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ“; εἰς ὧν κατέβη → εἰς ὃν κατέβη.
Topics: Martyrdom, Christology
Cite (SBL): Methodius, Mart. 1 (Bonwetsch GCS 27:520; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/methodius-de-martyribus/1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/methodius-de-martyribus/1
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the original text of the edition named on the work page (OCR made for this site; slips corrected as logged corrections) and compared afterwards with ANF where it has the text; otherwise re-read against the original. Passages marked as such are translated from Bonwetsch's German of the Slavonic/Armenian (not shown).
Chapter 2
2Bonwetsch GCS 27:520
ΙΙ. Πάσης ἀγαθῆς ἡ καταρχὴ πράξεως ἐν τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ βουλῇ τὴν ὑπόστασιν κέχτηται, τὸ δὲ συμπέρασμα ἐν τῷ θεῷ.
II. Pasēs agathēs hē katarchē praxeōs en tę̄ hēmeterą boulę̄ tēn hypostasin kechtētai, to de symperasma en tǭ theǭ.
II. Of every good deed the beginning has its foundation in our will, but the completion in God.
Notes and citation
Summary: Every good act begins in human will and is brought to completion by God.
- Not in ANF 6; re-read against the Greek.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip of the digital text corrected): IL Πάσης → ΙΙ. Πάσης.
Cite (SBL): Methodius, Mart. 2 (Bonwetsch GCS 27:520; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/methodius-de-martyribus/2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/methodius-de-martyribus/2
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the original text of the edition named on the work page (OCR made for this site; slips corrected as logged corrections) and compared afterwards with ANF where it has the text; otherwise re-read against the original. Passages marked as such are translated from Bonwetsch's German of the Slavonic/Armenian (not shown).