Bible Dictionary: Persecution: Men by Nature Addicted To

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Galatians 4:29
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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Chapter i
... from these causes, without any general persecution being denounced ... Men have a natural
veneration for antiquity, especially ... and which were of a nature to engage ...
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Saint Helena and the Time of Constantine
... Of the time immediately preceding the persecution of Diocletian ... in a suitable manner
the extent and nature of the ... Christ, was honored among all men, both Greeks ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/iv saint helena and the.htm

Paul and Barnabas in Lystra.
... men of that city, and raised persecution against him ... The men of Lystra were addicted
to idolatry, in ... this passage, that the contemplation of nature should be ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xv paul and barnabas.htm

The First Epistle of St. Peter
... beset Christians is permitted only to prove something; persecution shows, as ... loyalty
and paying taxes, etc., but to all men; human nature is dishonoured ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the first epistle of st.htm

The Gnostics, the Montanists, and the Manichaeans.
... But all men are not in a state of equal ... he seems to have strangely misapprehended
the nature of the ... save themselves by flight in times of persecution; and he ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter iv the gnostics the.htm

Paul in Ephesus.
... world, and drew upon their friends ridicule and persecution. ... from the established
order of nature, to patronise ... mind; to acknowledge before all men, that what ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xxii paul in ephesus.htm

But we must Follow Our Preacher, who Can Only Turn Away with ...
... Wherever men have power they use it to bring ... expression to one sad "touch of nature
that makes ... Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or ...
/.../jennings/old groans and new songs/chapter iv but we must.htm

1 Cor. Ii. 1, 2
... against Paul, but infirmity of human nature; and it ... such a Gospel, in their chains
and persecution overcame their ... Let your light so shine before men," saith He ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily vi 1 cor ii.htm

The Blossoming Desert.
... their adversaries, even though they be men of education ... he had been called to suffer
persecution for Christ's ... for a few months, their spiritual nature only just ...
/.../fagg/forty years in south china/vii the blossoming desert.htm

Answer to the Objection of the Heathen, that it was not Right to ...
... set each animal to that for which it is by nature fitted; so ... 1008] [Good will to
men made emphatic. ... As soon as persecution ceased, we find the Christian hospital ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter x answer to the objection.htm