fathers with me." The people replied,
,We have seen many signs from them. The bishop replied "But
I have not seen them." Why protract my words? The plan pleased
the people. The heretics were summoned. A fire was kindled in
the midst of the city. Nevertheless before the heretics entered
it, they were secretly summoned to the bishop. He said to them,
"I want to see if you have any evil about you." Hearing
this they stripped quickly and said with great confidence, "Search
our bodies and our garments carefully." The soldiers, truly,
following the instructions of the bishop, raised their arms and
noticing under the arm-pits some scars that were healed up broke
them open with their knives and extracted from them the little
scrolls which had been sewed in.

Having received these the bishop went forth with the heretics
tothe people and, having commanded silence, cried out in a loud
voice, "Now shall your prophets enter the fire, and if they
are not injured I will believe in them." The wretched men
trembled and said, "We ar not able to enter now." Then
the bishop told the people of the evil which had been detected,
and showed the compacts. Then all furious hurled the devil's ministers,
to be tortured with the devil in eternal flames, into the fire
which had been prepared. And thus through the grace of God and
the zeal of the bishop the growing heresy was extinguished and
the people who had been seduced and corrupted were cleansed by
penance.

University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History: Translations
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