Erick Erickson: The Man Who Willingly Crawled Onto a Pyre To Be Burned Alive for Jesus

Let’s take a break from the election. “Eighty and six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong,” said Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, in A.D. 156 before climbing onto a pyre where Roman authorities would burn him to death. Eyewitnesses reported the local authorities respected Polycarp and begged him to recant…

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