{"id":735,"date":"2009-01-24T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2009-01-24T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T17:19:06","slug":"perpetua-iii-favorite-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/01\/24\/perpetua-iii-favorite-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetua III:  Favorite Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of my favorite quotes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/perpetua.html\">Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Hilarian the procurator \u2013 he that after the death of Minucius Timinian the proconsul had received in this room the right and power of the sword \u2013 said:  \u2018Spare your father\u2019s grey hairs; spare the infancy of the boy.  Make sacrifice for the Emperor\u2019s prosperity.\u2019  And I answered:  \u2018I am a Christian.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when they had been brought to the gate and were being compelled to put on, the men the dress of the priests of Saturn, the women the dress of the priestesses of Ceres, the noble Perpetua remained of like firmness to the end, and would not.  For she said:  \u2018For this cause came we willingly unto this, that our liberty might not be obscured.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The said he [Saturus] to Pudens the soldier:  \u2018Farewell; remember the faith and me; and let not these things trouble you, but strengthen you.  And therewith he took from Pudens\u2019 finger a little ring, and dipping it in his wound gave it back again for an heirloom, leaving him a pledge and memorial of his blood.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Perpetua, that she might have some taste of pain, was pierced between the bones and shrieked out; and when the swordsman\u2019s hand wandered still (for he was a novice), herself set it upon her own neck.  Perchance so great a woman could not else have been slain (being feared of the unclean spirit) had she not herself so willed it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of my favorite quotes from the Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas. \u201cAnd Hilarian the procurator \u2013 he that after the death of Minucius Timinian the proconsul had received in this room the right and power of the sword \u2013 said: \u2018Spare your father\u2019s grey hairs; spare the infancy of the boy. Make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-christianity","category-historical-theology","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-bR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}