The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians / who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660

by Thieleman J. van Braght

[285] Fifth Sunday in Lent.

[286] From what is related here, it appears that also Soetgen van den Houte’s husband died for the truth, as a valiant witness of Jesus; although we have not been able to learn the time, place and manner of his death.

[287] Or Moravians.

[288] King’s Dollars.

[289] The construction of this clause in the original seems to indicate, with great probability, a typographical error, consisting in the substitution, in the pronoun, of an m for a w, and that, accordingly, it ought to read I, instead of: we.

[290] The word used in the original denotes a female friend.—Tr.

[291] Probably, Sonthofen (in Bavaria).

[292] German version of the Bible.

[293] In regard to the passage here alluded to (1 Pet. 2:23) see German version of the Bible.—Trans.

[294] This Adrian Willems was not mentioned in previous editions.