From His Discourse Concerning Martyrs.^29792979    From Theodoretus, Dial., 1, ᾽Ατρεπτ. Opp., ed. Sirmond, tom. iv. p. 37.

For martyrdom is so admirable and desirable, that the Lord, the Son of God Himself, honouring it, testified, “He thought it not robbery to be equal with God,”^29802980    Phil. ii. 5. that He might honour man to whom He descended with this gift.