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The Manifestation of Light and the Body

Because this was not [spoken] at all? with boldness original: "παρρησίας" (parrhesias) — a Greek term for "bold speech" or "candidness," often used in the New Testament to describe the apostles' preaching. to all the world. Because everything in the world happens in darkness and the evil is reproved by the light; for this reason he established a cause made? instead of the seventeen This "seventeen" may refer to a specific group of martyrs or a numerical symbolism in the original text. who were constrained, and this consisted in him for whose sake [it was]. And being whole of body, confessing death with boldness
Father they were [tried] among stones Likely a reference to stoning, a common form of martyrdom. being troubled? by the judgment of injustice in the life and death of the saints, according to him their own reproof exists. But also for those in a common body, and in the suffering to come from the fitting immortal one, the gods original: "οἱ θεοὶ" (hoi theoi); here possibly referring to divine beings or a specific pagan context being addressed. in fear of the one who loves, of the Lord original: "Θυ" (Theou) — a common abbreviation in Greek manuscripts for "of God." by the grace of God, becoming and through God himself; for he does not exist as a mind for them. Because also according to the duration of time? in his own body. The powers of the ephemeral consisted of the ancestral powers and through those things outside the body, contained because it is being fulfilled according to the whole.

For this [was spoken] with such boldness Armenian: "քաջութեամբ" (k'ajut'eamb) — literally "with bravery," used here to translate the Greek "parrhesia." for everyone to see entirely, speaking by the laws before the world. For everything that is in this world is of darkness and is evil, and it is revealed by that light; for that reason he gave causes instead of various others. And while they stood with such courage, and revealing his goodness through other things which he brought as a manifest testimony, confessing death at once to the dead and the living, [having been] openly stoned from all sides. Furthermore, they made his goodness suffer by means of death, which they considered to be for their own mortality in such evil. But also for those who received the sufferings in the common body, in total weakness, there is reconciliation by divine grace. And confessing to all both that which would come from him and that which lay before them, so that according to the time it might be revealed in his own body. Giving powers greater than the heavenly powers and the manifest service allotted to the body; because from him, and in the midst, and among all, his illumination is mixed and opened so that it becomes such a victory.