For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
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Martyrdom of the Holy Confessors
AD 500
Besides, it is against nothing whatever but the body that thou takest up arms: for what possible harm couldst thou do to the soul? since, as long as it resides in the body, it proves superior to torture; and, when it takes its departure, the body has no feeling whatever left. For, "the more our outward man is destroyed, the more is our inward man renewed day by day;