Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Events

    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 PersecutioneLate Antiquity · Latin

    The event of being pursued, accused, and punished for the Christian faith, treated as a divinely permitted test.

    You read the edict of that contest in the Apocalypse—with what prizes He invites to victory, and especially those who shall have conquered properly in persecution, in conquering having wrestled truly not against flesand blood, but against the spiritual things of wickedness.
    de fuga in persecutione
    So too persecution is good by its state, because it is a divine and rational disposition, but it displeases the sense of those to whose harm it comes.
    de fuga in persecutione
    But he who asks whether persecution is to be fled must of necessity now look ahead also to the following question:
    de fuga in persecutione

    ScorpiaceLate Antiquity · Latin

    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.
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