Pro qua re etiam Iohannes Baptista capite truncatus est, et sancto martyrio consummatus, cui non est dictum ut Christum negaret, et pro Christi confessione occisus est; sed quia isdem Dominus noster Iesus Christus dixerat: Ego sum veritas; quia pro veritate Iohannes occisus est, videlicet et pro Christo sanguinem fudit.
For which cause also John Baptist was beheaded and suffered holy martyrdom, who though he was not told to deny Christ, yet was he killed for the confession of Christ; but in that the same our Lord Jesus Christ had said: I am the truth; for that John was slain for the truth, surely also he shed his blood for Christ.
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