Chief among the persecutors is Andrei Zhdanov, considered by some to be Stalins probable successor. ❋ Unknown (1947)
'When the persecution had endured seven years, Attar Singh took leave to Pishapur once again (that was the fourth time in that year only) and he called his persecutors together before the village elders, and he cast his turban at their feet and besought them by his mother's blood to cease from their persecutions. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
The malice of persecutors is impotent even when it is most impetuous, and, when Satan fills their hearts, yet God ties their hands. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Note, That which we should earnestly desire and beg of God for our enemies and persecutors is that God would bring them to repentance, and we should desire their abasement in order to this, no other confusion to them than what may be a step towards their conversion. ❋ Unknown (1721)
The Messiah came to rescue the children of men out of the hands of Satan the great oppressor, and, all judgment being committed to him, the executing of judgment upon persecutors is so among the rest, Jude 15. 4. ❋ Unknown (1721)
As the measure of the sin of persecutors is filling up, so is the number of the persecuted martyred servants of ❋ Unknown (1721)
If things couldn't get any worse, Daniel later finds two Jews about to bury his late mother in a nameless grave (72-74), which inspires him to swear that "henceforward her persecutors were his enemies" (74). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Foremost among his persecutors was the Archbishop of Treves, and with him Sigebert dealt in summary fashion, depriving him of his archbishopric and offering the see to ❋ Lewis Spence (1914)
On every occasion, at every turn of his life, on his first return to Jerusalem, when preaching the Gospel in Asia and Greece, in the great struggle between Jewish and Gentile Christians — his persecutors were the Jews, his great enemy the law. ❋ 1817-1893 (1894)
The proud bishops who disdained him, the haughty judges who condemned him, are now chiefly known as his persecutors, while he continues to be more honored and extolled with every succeeding generation. ❋ John Lord (1852)
"Another cup of tea, my Angelina?" said Miss Hodges, when she had finished her tirade against her persecutors, that is to say, her friends, ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)
The same that were the instruments of punishing the persecutors were the instruments of relieving the persecuted; and Jeremiah thought never the worse of his deliverance for its coming by the hand of the king of Babylon, but saw the more of the hand of God in it. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Police and prosecutor urge the accused's bail be revoked, but the mayor and the D.A. are wary: The alleged murderer's parents are newspaper owners able and eager to vilify their son's "persecutors" in print. ❋ Tom Nolan (2011)
Sometimes his suspicions took a different turn, and he thought that Lake might be one of those 'persecutors' of whom Mark spoke with such mysterious hatred; and that the topic of their correspondence was, perhaps, some compromise, the subject or the terms of which would not bear the light. ❋ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1843)
This kind of persecutors without zeal, without charity, know well enough that religion, to pass by all questions of the truth or falsehood of any of its particular systems, (a matter I abandon to the theologians on all sides,) is a source of great comfort to us mortals, in this our short, but tedious journey through the world. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
“In your terminology,” said Spock, “we would be called persecutors. ❋ John Vornholt (1992)
Place and the Law "should ever give way to a Holier than they; and foremost amongst the persecutors was the fiery, earnest, intellectual man who was afterwards the holy Apostle Paul [47]. ❋ John Henry Blunt (N/A)
"persecutors," as he called them; or else the fear of a softer emotion weakening his defiant attitude; perhaps, even, it was a self-denying ordinance, in order to spare the girl the sight of her father in the dock, accused of cheating, sentenced as a swindler -- proving the possession of a certain moral delicacy. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
