Original sentence: (1 Corinthians 9:24-27, James 1, 12 and Revelation 2, 10..).Emblem of Christian martyrs, The Crown or wreath of Immortality, is a reward for those who stayed faithful until death.He was: ...crowned with the wreath of immortality ... having through patience overcome the unjust governor, and thus acquired the crown of immortality.... Martyrs often are idealized as combatants, the spectacle of the arena transposed to the martyr's struggle with Satan, and Eusebius uses this imagery, himself, in speaking of Blandina: “A small, weak, despised woman, who had put on Christ, the great invincible champion, and in bout after bout had defeated her adversary and through conflict had won the crown of immortality”.Ignatius of Antioch, condemned to fight beasts in year 107, asked his friends not to try to save him and so rob him of the crown of immortality.Polycarp, Christian bishop of Smyrna was, year 155, stabbed after an attempt to burn him at the stake failed
Edited sentence: " Eusebius uses similear imagery to speak of Blandina, martyred in the arena at Lyon in 177:." In 155, Polycarp, Christian bishop of Smyrna was stabbed after an attempt to burn him at the stake failed.He is said to have been " … crowned with the wreath of immortality ... having through patience overcome the unjust governor, and thus acquired the crown of immortality'.Ignatius of Antioch, condemned to fight beasts in the year 107, "asked his friends not to try to save him and so rob him of the 'crown of immortality'.Martyrs often are idealized as combatants, with the spectacle of the arena transposed to the martyr's struggle with Satan