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ANALECTA GORGIANA

Volume 8

General Editor

George Anton Kiraz Analecta Gorgiana is a collection of long essays and short monographs which are consistently cited by modern scholars but previously difficult to find because of their original appearance in obscure publications. Now conveniently published, these essays are not only vital for our understanding of the history of research and ideas, but are also indispensable tools for the continuation and development of on-going research. Carefully selected by a team of scholars based on their relevance to modern scholarship, these essays can now be fully utilized by scholars and proudly owned by libraries.

Acts of Saint George

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POWER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WE BEGIN TO WRITE

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THE MARTYRDOM OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS GEORGE AND OF ANTONINUS THE GENERAL (OXPAXTJXAXYJS) AND OF ALEXANDRA THE QUEEN WHO WERE MARTYRED AND CROWNED (THEIR PRAYER BE WITH US. AMEN !)

W h e n the churches of Christ were standing, winter storms (1) 'were roused (") by the kings in every country, and with threats they seized the preachers of truth, and brought tliera to worship fiends, I and forced them to sacrifice f ) . At that time Satan instigated the king of the Persians whose name was Dadian (and he had four evil counsellors his associates); and, having seated himself upon his judgment-seat (f^j^a), he wrote letters running thus. « Since a report has reached us, and has penetrated to our ears that the peoples are worshipping him whom Mary bore, and are not worshipping Apollo and Heracles, but him whom the Jews scourged with rods and fastened to a tree, therefore I have written to your high p. 74 mightinesses (4), in order that we may stamp out the thing that has happened ». W h e n the letters had been sent to all the kings in all the world, many kings and peoples set out and came to him, so that even his capital city was not large enough to hold them. On the next day the king seated himself upon his judgment-seat (¡^¡Jia), and ordered all the instruments ot torture to be set before them, frying-pans (xrjyava) and bronze cauldrons and sharp points, and elaborate fetters, and irons, land instruments (u) to cut out tongues, and forci(1) DMV ' storm ' ; so Pal. Copt. Arm. (2) The verb seems to have fallen out. M supplies the gap by ' was roused up against the Christians DV insert ' was stirred up against us C has ' and with winter-storms roused by the kings '. (3) B om.; see n. on text. (4) AB ' remembrance '. (5) CDMV om.; so Copt. Le Mcséox,

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pes to pull out teeth, and hooks to bend the neck, and spits with (*) tortures of every kind (ysvog). And, when they had brought them before him, the asp-serpent Dadian the king began to say : « If so be I find rebellious men who are acting contrary to the worship of the gods, I will destroy the towers of their bodies, and strip off the skin of their heads, and extract their brain while they are alive, and tear out the pupils of their eyes, and cut away their feet from Lheir anklebones, and saw asunder the soles of their feet, and extract their bowels, and what remains I will throw to the dogs. » And, while everyone was standing in astonishment, then those who were intending to be martyred greatly trembled and p- 75 shrank at the sight of the tortures (for everyone was anxiously thinking to remove from himself the burden of the pains), so that for three months none dared to say « I am a Christian », except this minister of righteousness whose light

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between the height and the depth, who came from a Cappadocian family, and served in his rank as a tribune (iptpouvo^), and, when he had finished his time of service in that rank, after amassing much gold, betook himself to Dadian the king in order to serve as a count (»top]?). And, when he saw that Christ was being insulted and demons were being praised before him, he distributed all that he possessed, gold or silver, and gave it to the poor and needy ; and, I having stripped himself of his clothes, f ) he stood before the king, crying and saying « I am a Christian ; but your threats, king, are idle, and name not those who ai'e not gods ; but let gods who did not make heaven and earth perish from the earth (3). For I worship one true God, with his Son and his Holy Spirit, one (1) CDMV ins. ' chains and rakes with '. (2) CDMV om.; Ath. Norm, as above. (3) Jer., x, 11.

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Trinity and one Godhead without division ». The king looked at him and said to Jiim : « You have deceived me, proud George (*), haste therefore to entreat the gods, who know how to forgive an offence in those that transgress. Gome up therefore P. 76 and sacrifice to them ; and know that Apollo stretched out the heavens and Heracles laid the foundations of the earth, and Serapion and Posidon they it was who restrained the sea that it should not pass its limit. But Ghrist of whom you speak the Jews scourged with rods, and hung upon a tree. But who made any of the things that are seen ? » Looking at him, Magnetius the general (axpaxrjAaxrjg) said to him : « From what city do you come, and whence came you hither, and what is your name ? » The blessed man said to him : « As to my first name, I am a Christian. But, if you inquire as among men, I am called George ». After these things the king said to him : « Gome up then and sacrifice, lest you die an evil death ». George answered and said to him: «Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou art an offence to me » (-). Then the king ordered him to be hung on apiece of wood( :l )and scraped. And, when the king saw that his limbs had been loosened, and his blood was running down upon the ground, he ordered them to take him down and throw him on his belly. And he ordered a wheel to be made like a saw, and long nails to be fixed to it like meat-forks (o(y)xivapa), and that there should be (') wedges (acpfjv) at its sides, and spits round it like a p. 77 catapult (?) (¡jLaYY^vov) (5). This revolved, and the structure of it (1) CDMV ins. • and insulted me as il' I were a mean person ' (similarly Ath. Copt.). From 1. 13 it appears that the king did not yet know his name. (2) Matth., xvi, 23. (3) Ath.