Exhortation to Martyrdom

Exhortatio ad martyrium

Written in 235, probably in Caesarea Maritima (now Caesarea, Israel). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

A call to two friends in danger to stand firm to death.

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Written in the persecution of Maximinus, 235, to Ambrose and Protoctetus (Eusebius, Church History 6.28)
Place written probable: Origen lived and taught at Caesarea from about 232 (Eusebius, Church History 6.26-27; Nautin, Origène, 1977)