“Father,' said I, 'do you see this vase here, for example, or water pot or whatever?' 'Yes, I do', said he. And I told him: 'Could it be called by any other name than what it is?' And he said: 'No.' 'Well, so too I cannot be called anything other than what I am, a Christian.”
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The Acts of the Christian Martyrs
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