“Eighty and six years have I served him and he has done me no wrong. Can I revile my King that saved me?”
They burned him at the stake. The Martrydom of Polycarp says that the smell of his burning was as the baking of bread. Personally, I doubt it, but there is no doubt he was a godly man who died in his master’s service. We would do well to be as uncompromising in our faith as he was.
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