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.
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.
when, rejoicing over the Thessalonians, "That we may glory," he says, "in you in the Churches of God, for your endurance and faith in all persecutions and afflictions which you sustain, a showing-forth of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of his kingdom, for which also you suffer.
because, since the master and lord himself underwent persecution and betrayal and slaying, much more must servants and disciples weigh out the same — lest, as though superior, they should seem exempt from the iniquity, when this very thing ought to suffice them for glory, to be made equal to the sufferings of their Lord and Master.