Persecutors

In some cases, Jewish DPs found themselves in the same camp with their erstwhile persecutors.

Certainly, the Jews were innocent victims of the Nazis, and of all their previous persecutors in the long sad history of antisemitism.

With the performers in colorful costumes, a person plays the role of Jesus carrying the cross that emphasizes the violence and brutality of Jesus’ persecutors.

Watching those deplorable devils you imagine as your persecutors playing the part of victim, apparently.

In only two of the 33 named are Christians also persecutors.

But also the willingness to die for Christ's cause, being handed over to persecutors and being martyred.

Least of all do they expect that it will be shared with their persecutors in their country of origin.

Progressive rabbis and social activists have called for Israelis to hide the refugees in attics and cellars, just as Europeans once protected Jews from their persecutors.

Alban met a Christian priest fleeing from his persecutors and sheltered him in his house, where he became so impressed with the priest's piety that he converted to Christianity.

From the perspective of their persecutors, the "Baptizers" baptized for the second time those "who as infants had already been baptized".

In 1550, to escape the violence of his persecutors, he emigrated to Geneva, where he set up his printing house.

Is not all this diametrically opposed to the conduct of our Lord and Savior, who, even on the cross, still prayed for his persecutors?

Lactantius states that, in the night before the battle, Constantine was commanded in a dream to "delineate the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers" (On the Deaths of the Persecutors 44.5).

Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died.

Once Stendahl's persecutors are dead, he and Pikes watch from a helicopter as the house crumbles and sinks into the lake as in Poe’s short story " The Fall of the House of Usher ".

Rather than deny the obvious, he adroitly masked the question by transforming his Roman magistrates into models of Enlightenment rulers — reluctant persecutors, too sophisticated to be themselves religious zealots.

The good God was the God of the New Testament and the creator of the spiritual realm, contrasted with the evil Old Testament God—the creator of the physical world whom many Cathars, and particularly their persecutors, identified as Satan.

The text appears somewhat anomalous compared to the general tone of thanksgiving, in that we have a diatribe against persecutors identified as Jews.

When all of Stendahl's persecutors are dead, the house sinks into the lake.