Those in Egypt.
1. was the conflict of those Egyptians who contended nobly for religion in Tyre. But we must admire those also who suffered martyrdom in their native land; where thousands of men, women, and children, despising the present life for the sake of the teaching of our Saviour, endured various deaths.
2. Some of them, after scrapings
and rackings and severest scourgings, and numberless other kinds of
tortures, terrible even to hear of, were committed to the flames; some
were drowned in the sea; some offered their heads bravely to those who
cut them off; some died under their tortures, and others perished with
hunger. And yet others were crucified; some according to the method
commonly employed for malefactors; others yet more cruelly, being
nailed to the cross with their heads downward, and being kept alive
until they perished on the cross with hunger.