# Touching The Tyrants Of This Time, And Their Tyranny, According To The Account Contained In The Fifth Book Of The Ondergang Der Tyrannen, For The Year 401, Page 135, Col. 2.

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Among all the cruel bloodhounds, and persecutors
of the Christians may well be counted Isdigerdis
and his son, Geroranes, who not only flayed
and roasted the Christians alive, but also split reeds,
and bound them, with the cut side inwards, tightly
around the naked bodies of the martyrs, whom they
then drew out by force, thus shockingly lacerating
the bodies of the Christians. They also confined
the steadfast martyrs, naked, in cells, bound them
hand and foot, and then chased in a great number
of rats, which, impelled by hunger, gnawed their
bodies, and, in the course of time, entirely devoured
them. Nevertheless, they could not, through these
and similar cruelties, force many Christians to a
denial of their Redeemer. All this is related in
order to convey an idea of the cruel tyranny which
was at this time practiced against the Christians.
Compare with Chron. Leonh., lib. 2. Will Baudart.
Denckw., lib. 5. Hist. Joh. Wega, lib. 4, cap. 3.
Theodoret., lib. 5, cap. 39.



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