Beasts: Persecutors

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1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantages it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
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2 Timothy 4:17
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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Library

Precious Deaths
... cry of persecutors against the men of whom the world was not worthy. But, precious
is their blood in his sight. Though they have been cast to the beasts in the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 18 1872/precious deaths.htm

From Gallienus to the End of the Last Persecution (Ad 261-313)
... Some were thrown to wild beasts; some were burnt alive, or roasted on gridirons ... The
cruellest of all the persecutors was Maximin, who, from the year 305, had ...
/.../chapter ix from gallienus to.htm

Of the Cruelty of the Heathens against the Christians.
... For the fury of all wild beasts rages until their appetite is satisfied; and when ...
But that is the worst kind of persecutors whom a false appearance of clemency ...
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I Relate all those Things on the Authority of Well-Informed ...
... should perish, and lest any future historian of the persecutors should corrupt ... and
partly scattered abroad, and to extirpate those noxious wild beasts who had ...
/.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap lii i relate all.htm

Constantine Having Settled all Things at Rome, Went to Milan About ...
Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died. ... winter, and by forced marches he came
into Bithynia with an army much impaired; for he lost all his beasts of burden ...
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Thus was all the Earth Afflicted; and from East to West...
Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died. ... earth afflicted; and from east to west,
except in the territories of Gaul, three ravenous wild beasts continued to ...
/.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap xvi thus was all.htm

And Now that Cruelty, which He had Learned in Torturing the ...
Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died. ... imprison, or to send criminals to work
in the mines; but to burn, to crucify, to expose to wild beasts, were things ...
/.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap xxii and now that.htm

Already the Judgment of God Approached Him, and that Season Ensued ...
Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died. ... Under pretence of manly exercise and
recreation, he made him combat with wild beasts: but this device was frustrated ...
/.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap xxiv already the judgment.htm

(On the Lord's Ascension, ii. )
... gift of the Holy Ghost, was not terrified by bonds, imprisonments, banishments,
hunger, fire, attacks by wild beasts, refined torments of cruel persecutors. ...
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Of the Power of Prayer.
... prayer, indeed, used to free from fires, [8946] and from beasts, [8947] and ... bivouac
on behalf of personal enemies, makes supplication on behalf of persecutors. ...
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