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作者：bystander 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
For a thorough definition of "martyrdom" please take note of the passage below, especially this sentence: "The important thing is that all subsequent martyrs witnessed, in their turn, to this primal martyrdom of Jesus, whose own death and resurrection witnessed to God's decisive victory over the rebellious powers of the world and the new reality of God's kingdom."
Stephen is the first martyr of the Church, and yet the meaning of "martyr," or "martyrdom" for that matter, is by no means strictly confined to its purest or narrowest sense as referring to the so-called "Martyrs of Christ". Otherwise, it would sound utterly absurd to even suggest that Socrates can be called a "martyr". You can think of my usage of the term as a literary device that invokes the image of someone who dies for a particular cause.
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"Martyrdom is a powerful reminder of the disclosive character of moral action, as the root meaning of the word itself makes clear. A martyr, in the original sense of the word, was simply a "witness," of the sort a prosecuting or defending attorney might call to testify in a trial. Among the earliest Christians, a martyr was one who had seen the resurrected Jesus with his or her own eyes, a sense still preserved in Peter's proclamation to the crowd assembled in Jerusalem during Pentecost: "God raised this man Jesus to life, and of that we are all witnesses" (Acts 2:32). It was not long, of course, before this sort of proclamation was bringing the wrath of both Jews and Romans down upon the Christian community, as the death of Stephen--the "perfect martyr"--attests.15 Hence martyrdom quickly came to mean a costly witness. The transition was not difficult. There had already been a well-developed Jewish tradition of martyrdom, within which Jesus' first followers were soon able to recognize him as the witness or martyr par excellence (cf. Rev. 1:5; 3:14). The important thing is that all subsequent martyrs witnessed, in their turn, to this primal martyrdom of Jesus, whose own death and resurrection witnessed to God's decisive victory over the rebellious powers of the world and the new reality of God's kingdom. In the acta martyrum therefore the Lordship of Jesus and the character of the world as God's creation (not your's, mine or Caesar's) are disclosed."
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