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I am Arian, the Governor of Ansena,

Egypt. I am very loyal and always
obey the orders of the great emper-

or of our empire. My job is to force
every Christian to deny Christ and

to worship our great gods. I do a re-
ally good job torturing Christians to

force them deny their God but even
though I do my very best to threaten

and torture them severely, they insist
on holding on to their faith in Christ!

I have many stories that I can tell you
about persistent Christians. One of

these storeis is the story of Timothy
the deacon and the keeper of the di-

vine books. I called him and ordered
him to hand over the books to burn them. I, also ordered him to

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