 | Thomas Hodgkin - Society of Friends - 1911 - 364 pages
...given to the wild beasts, for through them I can attain unto God. I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found pure bread [of Christ]. Rather entice the wild beasts, that they may become my sepulchre, and may leave no part... | |
 | Ethel Ross Barker - Christian antiquities - 1913 - 446 pages
...Let me offer myself a sacrifice while the altar is ready. ... I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found pure bread. Bishop Pothinus of Lyons l is ninety and so weak in body that he could scarcely draw breath, and yet... | |
 | Francis Bond - Christian art and symbolism - 1914 - 384 pages
...on to S. Polycarp. The former suffered martyrdom at Rome, c. 1 10 : " I am ground," he said, '• by the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found pure bread of Christ." Polycarp also had known the aged apostle John, and was wont to describe his intercourse... | |
 | Charles Augustus Briggs - Theology - 1916 - 240 pages
...out a libation to God, while there is still an altar ready. ... I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found pure bread. . . . The pangs of a new birth are upon me. Bear with me, brethren. . . . Suffer me to be an imitator... | |
 | Charles Philip Stewart Clarke - Church history - 1920 - 400 pages
...me to be eaten by the beasts, through whom I can attain to God. I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found pure bread of Christ. . . . From Syria to Rome I am fighting with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and day,... | |
 | Reginald Somerset Ward - Meditations - 1922 - 162 pages
...moment when he is thrown to the wild beasts cries out, " I am G 97 the corn of God and am ground by the teeth of wild, beasts that I may be found pure bread." St. Polycarp, ordered by the proconsul to revile Christ, replies, " Eighty and six years have I served... | |
 | 1924 - 142 pages
...I.19 "As one of our people said when condemned to wild beasts, I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found pure bread." That this reference is taken from Ignatius no one can deny. Eusebius, as we have already seen, enumerates... | |
 | Alphonse Liguori John Coan - Apostolic Fathers - 1924 - 146 pages
...I.19 "As one of our people said when condemned to wild beasts, I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found pure bread." That this reference is taken from Ignatius no one can deny. Eusebius, as we have already seen, enumerates... | |
 | Arthur Richard Whitham - Church history - 1927 - 376 pages
...the attainment to Christ and to true discipleship. ' I am God's wheat,' he says, ' and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found pure bread,'- — ' It is good for me to die for Jesus Christ's sake rather than to reign over the lords of the earth.... | |
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God. I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found pure bread [of Christ]. 
