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Updated: June 1, 2025
'Do you fancy we have forgotten Hieracas? cried a voice from the rear; and at that name, yell upon yell arose, till the mob, gaining courage from its own noise, burst out into open threats.
'Revenge for the blessed martyr Hieracas! 'Revenge for the wrongs of the Church! 'Down with the friend of Heathens, Jews, and Barbarians! 'Down with the favourite of Hypatia! 'Tyrant! 'Butcher! And the last epithet so smote the delicate fancy of the crowd, that a general cry arose of 'Kill the butcher! and one furious monk attempted to clamber into the chariot.
Another heresy, which for a time made even as much noise as the last, was that of Hieracas of Leontopolis.
Just then, Peter and the rest turned up a side street, and Philammon and Hieracas were left to go on their joint errand together. They paced on for some way in silence, up one street and down another, till Philammon, for want of anything better to say, asked where they were going. 'Where I choose, at all events. No, young man!
Hieracas was a man of some learning, and, much to the vexation of those who opposed his arguments, he could repeat nearly the whole Bible by heart. The Bishop Hesychius, the martyr in the late persecution, was one of the learned men of the time. He had published a new edition of the Septuagint Old Testament, and also of the New Testament.
What is that boy Philammon doing there? Let him go with Master Hieracas. Peter seemed not to receive the proposition favourably, and whispered something to the archdeacon.... 'No. I can spare none of the rest. Importunate persons must take their chance of being well served. Come here are our brethren; we will all go together.
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