Bible Dictionary: The Ox:

◄ The Ox: (Led to Slaughter) of Saints Under Persecution ►

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Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus
... Even when he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, he was ... for thee to kick against
the pricks." There is a figure here; there is an allusion to the ox goad. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the conversion of saul of.htm

John Bunyan on the Terms of Communion and Fellowship of Christians ...
... of my conscience a continual butchery, and slaughter-shop, unless ... (1.) This would
be ploughing with an ox, and an ... her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/john bunyan on the terms.htm

Britain's Mercies, and Britain's Duty
... against me before the Lord, whose ox have I ... had hitherto favored him with wonderful
success, led him in ... brought the Duke, after a deserved slaughter of some ...
/.../selected sermons of george whitefield/britains mercies and britains duty.htm

The Conversion of Paul.
... mother and a heathen father, was led astray into ... of Christianity, "breathing
threatenings and slaughter against the ... The ox may and often does resist, but by ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 31 the conversion of.htm

Fifthly, as this Revelation, to the Judgment of Right and Sober ...
... of sin, by which Satan should be bruised under their feet ... their lot in the kingdom
promised to the saints of the ... is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a ...
/.../xiv proposition xiv fifthly as.htm

The Resurrection of the Dead
... Reflecting the other day upon the sad state of the churches at the present moment,
I was led to look back to ... As the ox goeth to the slaughter, and the sheep ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/the resurrection of the dead.htm

Acts IX
... But Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the ... persecutions, but
that, like an unruly ox, he had ... they believe, but when they are led by faith ...
/.../mcgarvey/a commentary on acts of the apostles/acts ix.htm

Letter cviii. To Eustochium.
... he that soweth beside the waters where the ox and the ... we are counted as sheep for
the slaughter." [2944] But ... in the procession, and yet others led the singing ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cviii to eustochium.htm

The Heavenly Footman; Or, a Description of the Man that Gets to ...
... wonderful popularity of this book, and the great good it produced, led him again ...
she forced him,' till he went after her 'as an ox to the slaughter, or as a ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the heavenly footman or a.htm

Memoir of John Bunyan
... own graces, enjoying the communion of Saints, and advancing ... In the interpreter's
house he is 'led into a ... besieged and stormed with terrible slaughter by the ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/memoir of john bunyan.htm