Chapter VI.—Continuation.  Several Other Martyrs.

To these men who spent their lives in the practice of holiness, there is to be added a great multitude of the elect, who, having through envy endured many indignities and tortures, furnished us with a most excellent example.  Through envy, those women, the Danaids^40334033    Some suppose these to have been the names of two eminent female martyrs under Nero; others regard the clause as an interpolation. and Dircæ, being persecuted, after they had suffered terrible and unspeakable torments, finished the course of their faith with stedfastness,^40344034    Literally, “have reached to the stedfast course of faith.” and though weak in body, received a noble reward.  Envy has alienated wives from their husbands, and changed that saying of our father Adam, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.”^40354035    Gen. ii. 23.  Envy and strife have overthrown^40364036    I. κατέσκαψεν (razed to the ground). great cities, and rooted up mighty nations.