Bible Dictionary: Persecution: The Wicked: Active In

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Psalm 143:3
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
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Lamentations 4:19
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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Library

Concerning Persecution
... (1) Love is active. ... The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous'
(Psalm 125:3). The rod may be there, it ... Persecution is sharp, but short ...
/.../the beatitudes an exposition of matthew 51-12/21 concerning persecution.htm

"Who Will Rise up with Me against the Wicked?"
... of some to "rise up against the wicked," and join ... may, indeed, "endure for a time;
but when persecution or tribulation ... Say not, "But if I am active in this work ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 52 who will rise.htm

The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.
... good, but to the ferocity of a wicked tyrant. ... an inscription at Pompeii traces of
a bloody persecution; but the ... This is to be understood in the active sense of ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 37 the roman conflagration.htm

Letter Lxxxix. (AD 406. )
... anything for their iniquity, they call it persecution; and not ... but when it is
administered by a wicked man, whose ... is of two kinds"either with active rage or ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter lxxxix a d 406.htm

Patmos
... busy scenes of life, and from the active labors of ... experience of the apostle John
under persecution, there is ... does not prevent the plottings of wicked men, but ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 56 patmos.htm

Acts XII
... religious partisans in Jerusalem, without any active assistance on ... seen that the
brunt of persecution uniformly fell ... a man engages in a wicked enterprise, his ...
/.../mcgarvey/a commentary on acts of the apostles/acts xii.htm

The Tongue.
... liberty, and to exhibit Faith as the most active principle within ... Is persecution
only fire and sword? ... never persecuted"you leave that to the wicked Church of ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/robertson/sermons preached at brighton/i the tongue.htm

The Life of Henry Hall of Haugh-Head.
... After the restoration of that wicked tyrant Charles II ... down in the hottest time of
the persecution, mostly with ... He had, indeed, an active hand in the most part ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of henry hall.htm

On the Feast of the Epiphany, vi.
... The cessation of active persecution does not do away with the need of continued ... the
burning of incense, should be paid the homage of divers wicked deeds [898 ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xxxvi on the feast.htm

The Sermon on the Mount.
... before the secret hate became outspoken and active. ... For instances of persecution
of the prophets, see I ... This tendency caused the wicked of Christ's times to say ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xlii the sermon on the 2.htm