Chapter

 1 I  |          not we ought to flee in persecution For my part, having on the
 2 I  |       matter stands in regard to persecution itself, whether it comes
 3 I  |          The question in hand is persecution. With respect to this, let
 4 I  |         will; on the ground that persecution is especially worthy of
 5 I  |         For what is the issue of persecution, what other result comes
 6 I  |       certainly sift His people? Persecution, by means of which one is
 7 I  |          down to lower. So, too, persecution may be viewed as a contest.
 8 I  |     distinction of conquering in persecution, in very deed contending
 9 I  |           The one great thing in persecution is the promotion of the
10 I  |    greater fear of Him, and when persecution breaks out? The Church is
11 I  |      have it clearly proved that persecution, improving as it does the
12 II |          but from the devil, and persecution consists of injustice (for
13 II |          the vilest criminals?), persecution therefore seems to proceed
14 II |      injustice which constitutes persecution is perpetrated, we ought
15 II |        know, as you have neither persecution without the injustice of
16 II |       the trial of faith without persecution, that the injustice necessary
17 II |      does not give a warrant for persecution, but supplies an agency;
18 II |           which is the reason of persecution, the will of God goes first,
19 II |        that as the instrument of persecution, which is the way of trial,
20 II |           but of subjection (for persecution is the appointment of the
21 II |         the devil, supplied that persecution may be got up), we believe
22 II |         got up), we believe that persecution comes to pass, no question,
23 II |         temptation is there than persecution?), we acknowledge that that
24 III|     other war has our peace than persecution? If in its issues persecution
25 III|    persecution? If in its issues persecution emphatically brings either
26 III|            for when the flame of persecution is consuming as, then the
27 III|      will, then you shall suffer persecution; but if it is not, the heathen
28 IV |          it is evident from whom persecution proceeds, we are able at
29 IV |    should not flee in it. For if persecution proceeds from God, in no
30 IV |        sense of perception? Thus persecution in its own nature too is
31 IV |   reasonable ground, when one in persecution is cast out of a state of
32 IV |       the good also, when one by persecution has his salvation made more
33 IV |          not be able to speak of persecution as an evil, which, while
34 IV |        of its evil, good. So, if persecution is in every way a good,
35 IV |          evil, if they flee from persecution as an evil (for no one avoids
36 V  |        the matter of flight from persecution, because He can bring you
37 V  |        having ofttimes fled from persecution from place to place, nay,
38 V  |        we ought not to flee from persecution because it avails us nothing
39 VI |          strictly speaking which persecution urges (rather He was in
40 VI |    submitted to deliverance from persecution by being let down from the
41 VI | Certainly no longer to flee from persecution. Otherwise they who had
42 VI |       wished him rather to avoid persecution, might also have adduced
43 VII|          first place, indeed, if persecution is from God, what are we
44 VII|       wished us either to suffer persecution or to flee from it. If to
45 VII|            Happy they who suffer persecution for My name's sake."Unhappy,
46 VII|          servile--to preserve in persecution such as He knew to be weak!
47 IX |       And yet who will flee from persecution, but he who fears? Who will
48 X  |     apostle, as soon as he hears persecution's trumpet, runs off from
49 X  |         runs off from the day of persecution. I also will produce in
50 XI |         step by his endurance of persecution. But when persons in authority
51 XI |        happens more than when in persecution the Church is abandoned
52 XI |    Church to flee in the time of persecution. But otherwise, if the flock
53 XII|          he who inquires whether persecution ought to be shunned by us
54 XII|        distinctly affirming that persecution, from which it is evident
55 XII|         there was a fleeing from persecution, in the release from persecution
56 XII| persecution, in the release from persecution which you bought; but that
57 XII|      fallen while getting out of persecution's way. He has fallen, therefore,
58 XII|       the matter, in any time of persecution trouble, extricate themselves
59 XIV|       neither stoop to flee from persecution nor to buy it off, for they