...and Jews who lived in Smyrna24 shouted with uncontrollable anger and a great cry: "This one is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, who teaches many not to sacrifice nor to worship."25 Such things they shouted and asked the Asiarch...

...consisting of both heathen and Jews "cried out with uncontrollable wrath and a loud shout, 'This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, who teaches many neither to offer sacrifice nor to worship' " (xii.2). The seeds of this kind of problem...

...native and Jewish inhabitants of Smyrna cried out loudly and in unrestrained anger : ' This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, teaching many not to offer sacrifice or worship.' With such cries they demanded that Philip, the Asiarch,1...

...is a Christian'. In response to this the crowd of pagans and Jews shouted: Here is the schoolmaster of Asia - the father of the Christians - the destroyer of our gods - the one that teaches the multitude not to sacrifice or do reverence (Martyrium Polycarpi 12). For...

...a Christian, the entire crowd of pagans and Jews who lived in Smyrna shouted out loud, "This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods." 8 The words "teacher" (8t8aa1caXo<;) and "father" (natf|p) were precisely the words that were used...

...Gentiles and Jews living in Smyrna boiled with anger and shouted at the tops of their lungs, "This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, who teaches many not to offer sacrifice or worship!" They then demanded that Philip the Asiarch let...

...Gentiles and Jews alike, boiled with anger and shouted at the tops of their voices: "This fellow is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, who teaches numbers of people not to sacrifice or even worship". . . . Then a shout went up from every...

...heathen and Jews who lived in Smyrna shouted with uncontrollable anger and a great cry: "This one is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, who teaches many not to sacrifice nor to worship." Such things they shouted and asked the Asiarch Philip...

...ed. and trans. Betty Radice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 285-289. 12 Ibid. the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods! He teaches many not to sacrifice and not to worship!"1 1 Threatened with fire, Polycarp responded to the...

...(9,2; 9,3; I0,I). Polycarp refused. The reason for his death sentence, accordingly, was: "He is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our gods, who by his teaching has persuaded many no longer to sacrifice to our gods and no longer to worship...