Persecution
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Persecution the idea
persecution · the dog-days of persecution
in the texts
De Fuga in Persecutione
The event of being pursued, accused, and punished for the Christian faith, treated as a divinely permitted test.
Now who will flee persecution but he who will fear?
But he who asks whether persecution is to be fled must of necessity now look ahead also to the following question:
First indeed, if persecution is from God, what kind of thing is it, that the same One should command it to be fled who also brings it on?
Scorpiace
The ongoing persecution of Christians, likened to the scorpion's hot season, in which some are tested by fire, sword, and beasts.
And now, in the present state of things, the heat is at its midpoint, the very dog-days of persecution, set on, forsooth, by the very Dog-star.