22. Or, "a specimen."
23. We are not sure that the foregoing sentence is correctly rendered throughout ; it is certainly obscure and irregular in its construction.
24. The special allusions here seem to be to Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The phrase rendered "resurrection of the confessor Christ" is ambiguous.
25. Although this sentence is not very plain, there is no doubt that Peter has ascribed to him all the honour mentioned above.
26. We are really uncertain as to the precise idea of this place: possibly the "minister" is one who honours the memory of the saints.
27. Obscure again. Eusebius appears to mean that Paul, instead of persecuting the churches, narrates his conversion in the exercise of that true hope which God gives, and which he has received and avowed.
28. Or, with their lives attested the faith.
29. The eminent saints and martyrs whom Eusebius mentions will not, even in name, be all recognized, owing to the loose way in which their names are spelled in the Syriac. A reference to the Martyrs of Palestine supplies the names of Zebinas, and Paulus, but whether they are the same as those in our text does not appear (Martyrs, p. 31, 39, 47). Of the rest, we find the names of two or three in other works of Eusebius, and more in the old martyrologies; but we are not about to investigate them here, and will only remark that all the martyrs mentioned in this part of the oration may be such as suffered in Palestine, but are not named in the larger work.
30. Another ambiguous phrase.
31. There is a paronomasia in the original here, which is at the same time obscure and abrupt. The whole piece abounds with remarkably crabbed and doubtful expressions, possibly because the translator was not sufficiently master of Greek.
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