Persecution
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Persecution the event
persecution · afflictions · persecutions · sufferings · the burning that falls upon us
in the texts
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
Trials and afflictions, distinguished between those imposed from outside by others and the more dangerous ones arising from within the soul.
but the most grievous persecution is from within, sent forth out of each man's very soul, which is ravaged by godless desires and manifold pleasures and base hopes and corrupting dreams, whenever, ever reaching after the more and raging with wild loves and burning, it is bled, as it were by goads or stings, by the passions that beset it, into mad pursuits and despair of life and contempt of God.
Scorpiace
The hostile trials, betrayals, and violence Christians undergo for the Name, treated as the necessary arena of confession.
even in the parable of the sermon he figures, in the turf withered after springing up, the heat of persecutions.
"Beloved, be not alarmed at the burning which is wrought among you for a trial, as though a new thing befell you.
Further, both the hatred of the Name is here, and persecution here bursts forth, and betrayal here brings forth, and interrogation here compels, and the executioner's work here rages, and confession or denial discharges this whole order on earth.