Translation and Commentary on The Martyrdom of Polycarp §12.1
Translation
1 And he said many other things also, was being filled up [a] with courage and joy, even his face was filled full of graciousness. For this reason, not only did he not collapse from being terrified [b] by the things said to him; but on the contrary, [c] the proconsul was astounded out of his mind [d] and sent his own herald into the midst of the stadium to proclaim three times, "Polycarp confessed himself to be a Christian!"
[a] ??????????? (????(?)?????) Where the proconsul has threatened St. Polycarp with consumption by fleeting fire (§11.2), St. Polycarp is antithetically filled up with courage and joy. Ezekiel 35:8 LXX reads ??? ??????? ??? ?????????? ??? ???? ??????? ??? ??? ???????? ???... And your wounded will cover your hills and ravines... (author's translation). The picture here is that everywhere one would look in the land one would see wounded people covering the land. Luke 1:53 employs the derivative aorist ????????? in the Magnificat: ????????? ????????? ?????? / ??? ??????????? ???????????? ?????? (NA27). The hungry are filled up with good things / and the rich have been sent away empty (author's translation).
[b] ?????????? see note on §5.1.
[c] ?????????? is apparently a conflation of the definite article ?? and the word ???????? (see BAGD, 262) and is used to show a logically alternate thought (e.g., on the other hand, on the contrary).
[d] ???????? today we might say colloquially that the proconsul "lost it," referring to a loss of emotional control.
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