Why ‘from the blood of Abel’,
who first suffered martyrdom, is not to be wondered at all, but it must be
asked, why ‘up to the blood of Zechariah’, when not only are there many who were
killed after him up to the birth of Christ, but also immediately after Christ’s
birth the innocent children in Bethlehem were killed by this generation.
Perhaps because Abel was a shepherd of sheep, and Zechariah a priest, and the
one was slain in the field, and the other in the courtyard of the temple, he wanted
to make known under their name martyrs of both kinds, that is to say, bot the laity
and those dedicated to the office of the altar. (Bede, Commentary on the
Gospel of Luke [trans. Calvin B. Kendall and Faith Wallis; Translated Texts
for Historians 85; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025], 412)
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