Bible Dictionary: Fire: Persecution

◄ Fire: Persecution ►

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Luke 12:49-53
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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Concerning Persecution
... Now as the best vessel of gold and silver passes through the fire, so God's
chosen vessels pass often through the fire of persecution. ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/21 concerning persecution.htm

Fire! Fire! Fire!
... My brethren, the Church has had very painful experience that persecution is
a fire which does burn. ... Persecution is a fire which does burn. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/fire fire fire.htm

Secret Persecution by Licinius, who Causes Some Bishops To
... had himself witnessed as the consequence of their impious conduct, he re-kindled
the persecution of the Christians, like a long-extinguished fire, and fanned ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter i secret persecution by licinius.htm

Demonstration xxi. --Of Persecution.
... Hananiah also and his brethren were persecuted, and cast into the furnace of fire. ...
in the days of Diocletian there came great affliction and persecution to the ...
/.../aphrahat/aphrahat select demonstrations/demonstration xxi of persecution.htm

Nestorius of Antioch Promoted to the See of Constantinople. His ...
... His Persecution of the Heretics. ... these people to desperation; for when they saw the
work of destruction going forward in their chapel, they threw fire into it ...
/.../chapter xxix nestorius of antioch promoted.htm

Prosperity under Persecution
... Her Lord is with her, and if the fire be heated seven times hotter, his glory is
seven times the brighter. ... God has blessed the church by her persecution. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/prosperity under persecution.htm

Persecution Every Christian's Lot
... of mercy, and snatch you, even you persecutors, as fire-brands out of the fire. ... the
godly in Christ Jesus, as much as in them lies, to suffer persecution! ...
/.../selected sermons of george whitefield/persecution every christians lot.htm

The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.
... historians have doubted, not indeed the truth of this terrible persecution, but
that ... by the escape of their transtiberine quarter from the injury of the fire. ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 37 the roman conflagration.htm

The Change of Affairs for the Better.
... against us had been earnestly prosecuted, most remarkably changed their minds, and
issued a revocation, and quenched the great fire of persecution which had ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter xvi the change of affairs.htm

Of the Persecution Raised by his Colleagues.
... the governors of the several provinces had set on foot a general persecution of
the ... those conflicts for the faith, and most readily endured both fire and sword ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter xv of the persecution raised.htm