Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Methodius/Fragments/From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs

From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs.

For martyrdom is so admirable and desirable, that the Lord, the Son of God Himself, honouring it, testified, &#8220;He thought it not robbery to be equal with God,&#8221; that He might honour man to whom He descended with this gift.