Topical Bible: The Church: The Wicked Persecute

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Acts 8:1-3
And Saul was consenting to his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
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1 Thessalonians 2:14,15
For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
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Articles vii and viii: of the Church.
... In the Church itself, infinite is the multitude of the wicked who oppress it [despise,
bitterly hate, and most violently persecute the Word, as, eg, the Turks ...
/.../melanchthon/the apology of the augsburg confession/part 11 articles vii and.htm

Of the Prophecies of the Old Testament in their visible ...
... of the earth, who formerly were wont to persecute the Christians ... and not only will
it thus separate those wicked men who are outside the Church, but also it ...
/.../on the catechising of the uninstructed/chapter 27 of the prophecies of.htm

Easter Monday
... Scriptures entire; who cease not to persecute godly and ... Rather, they must be wicked
devils, a miserable ... the worst enemies of the Christian Church; more wicked ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle sermons vol ii/easter monday.htm

Of the Right of Bishops not to be Accused or Hurt by Detraction.
... authority, and reinstated in the bosom of our holy mother the Church; since those ...
is yet worse) that too in growing measure"that the wicked persecute the good ...
//christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the decretals/ii of the right of.htm

How the Apostle Maintains that Christ is the Power of God and the ...
... You persecute Him in the faith, you persecute Him in the church, you persecute Him
with the arms of a wicked belief, you persecute Him with the sword of false ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter x how the apostle.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xxii. 2, Etc. , About the ...
... Ye know the Bride; it is the Church. ... Why, by thy wicked prayers dost thou teach Me
to do, what I ... ask this very thing, ask that thou mayest persecute thine enemy ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xl on the words.htm

Caph.
... wilt Thou be avenged of them that persecute me?" (ver ... and that the words of the Church,
which were ... 85. In what followeth: "The wicked have told me pleasant tales ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/caph.htm

Of the Babylonish Captivity, and the Things Signified Thereby.
... even on to the end they find them wicked, or with ... time which the seventy years signify,
the Church shall be ... of which they were wont to persecute the Christians ...
/.../chapter 21 of the babylonish captivity.htm

On the Church
... faithful to God; but later they became wicked and undertook to ... about, it would still
be the church of that ... the cruel pagan emperors began to persecute and put ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 11 on the church.htm

Letter Lxxxvii. (AD 405. )
... 8. You answer, perhaps, that Christians ought not to persecute even the wicked. ... fall
down before him," [2095] they are now members of the Church; and you ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter lxxxvii a d 405.htm