governors and kings
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
so many kings · the governors · the persecutors of the Lord's name · the powers · the powers assigned
spoken of as
1 expressionkings and governors“persecutors”1 mention
De Spectaculis (Latin)
Likewise the governors, the persecutors of the Lord's name, melting in flames fiercer than those with which they raged insultingly against the Christians?
in the texts
De Spectaculis
Rulers and governors who persecuted Christians, depicted suffering at the Last Judgment.
Likewise the governors, the persecutors of the Lord's name, melting in flames fiercer than those with which they raged insultingly against the Christians?
Scorpiace
Roman civil and political authorities, governors and kings, before whom Christians are tried and who wield the sword.
Who are these slayers of the body only, save the aforesaid governors and kings — men, I suppose?
" So, not on the occasion of frustrating martyrdom does he bid you be subject to the powers, but in the provocation to living well, even under their regard, as of helpers assigned to righteousness, as of ministers of the divine judgment, which here too prejudges concerning the guilty.