6.1.1
ς
AI English cleanup, gpt-5.4-mini, 2026-05-25
Now when Severus also was stirring up persecution against the churches, in every place splendid martyrdoms of the champions of piety were accomplished, but with especial frequency at Alexandria. Thither, as to some great arena, were escorted from Egypt and the whole Thebais God's champions, who, through their most steadfast endurance in divers tortures and modes of death, were wreathed with the crowns laid up with God. Among these was Leonides, known as “the father of Origen,” who was beheaded, leaving his son behind him quite young. It will not be out of place to describe briefly how deliberately the mind was set on the Divine Word from that early age, especially as the story about him has received exceedingly widespread notoriety.
6.1.2
I. Ὡς δὲ καὶ Σευῆρος διωγμὸν κατὰ τῶν ἐκκλσιῶν κλησιῶν ἐκίνει, λαμπρὰ μὲν τῶν ὑπὲρ εὐσεβείας ἀθλητῶν κατὰ πάντα τόπον ἀπετελεῖτο μαρτύρια, μάλιστα δ’ ἐπλήθυεν ἐπ’ Ἀλεξανδρείας, τῶν ἀπ’ Αἰγύπτου καὶ Θηβαίδος ἁπάσης αὐτόθι ὥσπερ μέγιστον ἀθλητῶν θεοῦ παραπεμπομένων στάδιον διὰ καρτερικωτάτης τε ποικίλων βασάνων καὶ θανάτου τρόπων ὑπομονῆς τοὺς παρὰ θεῷ στεφάνους ἀναδουμένων· ἐν οἷς καὶ Λεωνίδης, λεγόμενος Ὠριγένους πατήρ, τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτμηθείς, νέον κομιδῆ καταλείπει τὸν παῖδα· ὃς δὴ ὁποίας ἐξ ἐκείνου περὶ τὸν θεῖον λόγον προαιρέσεως ἦν, οὐκ ἄκαιρον διὰ βραχέων διελθεῖν τῷ μάΛιστα πολὺν εἶναι παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς τὸν περὶ αὐτοῦ βεβοημένον λόγον.
No clean AI English text has been generated for this passage yet.