1
Aegeates attempted to bargain with Maximilla.
2
If she resumed marital relations with him, he promised to release Andreas.
3
If she refused, he would intensify Andreas's suffering.
4
Maximilla brought the threat to Andreas.
5
Andreas told her not to yield through fear, flattery, or coercion.
6
In the preserved Greek discourse he interprets her resistance through the story of Chavah and Adam, presenting Maximilla as correcting the ancient fall through disciplined obedience.
7
He tells her to understand the inward person as greater than visible social compulsion.
8
The discourse uses strongly ascetic and philosophical language, describing the soul as heavenly, luminous, and not reducible to bodily desire.
9
Andreas says that Aegeates may do what he wishes to his own body; bodily suffering cannot control the inward allegiance of the faithful.
10
He pleads with Maximilla to remain steady, because abandoning the commitment now would make his own suffering meaningless in the logic of the narrative.