[Lee N. Field]

“I know only one God, the true God. I will offer to Him the sacrifice of praise. I know that your gods are demons, and you honor them (in vain) not so much by the sacrifice of cattle as by the deaths of your own souls.

You get the same kind of polemic in Augustine.

[Antoninus]

You get the same kind of polemic in Augustine.

If you read the authentic early martyrdom accounts, you see numerous polemics very similar to this. The interesting thing is that many of these early accounts are copied from the Roman trial transcripts themselves or from eyewitness recollections.