The Sixth Persecution, Under Maximus, A.D. 235 A.D. 235, was in the time of Maximinus. In Cappadocia, the president, Seremianus, did all he could to...
We discussed previously the bearing which emperor worship might have as internal evidence on the question at hand. There, we were dealing with a spec...
Papal Persecutions Thus far our history of persecution has been confined principally to the pagan world. We come now to a period when persecution, u...
Persecution [N] [T] [B]The first great persecution for religious opinion of which we have any record was that which broke out against the worshippers ...
St. Stephen St. Stephen suffered the next in order. His death was occasioned by the faithful manner in which he preached the Gospel to the betrayers...
The Second Persecution, Under Domitian, A.D. 81 The emperor Domitian, who was naturally inclined to cruelty, first slew his brother, and then raised ...
The First Persecution, Under Nero, A.D. 67 The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. Thi...
PERSECUTION pur-se-ku'-shun (@diogmos] (Matthew 13:21; Mark 4:17; 10:30; Acts 8:1; 13:50; Romans 8:35; 2?Corinthians 12:10; 2?Thessalonians 1:4; 2?Tim...
Persecution [N] [T] [E]Just as the Bible graphically describes the introduction and spread of sin in the world, it also depicts the presence and reali...
Persecution of the Christians by the Goths and Vandals. Many Scythian Goths having embraced Christianity about the time of Constantine the Great, the...
Elsewhere, we discuss reasons why Nero cannot be the Beast of Revelation. Here, we consider the real Beast of Revelation?a future figure who has yet t...
Revelation 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, &c.] When the devil perceived he had not the power in the Roman empire he fo...
We told you beforehand (proelegomen umin). Imperfect active, we used to tell you beforehand. Old verb, rare in N.T. (only in Paul). That we are to su...
ATTALUS at'-a-lus: King of Pergamum, mentioned in 1 Macc 15:22 among the kings to whom was sent an edict (Ant., XIV, viii, 5) from Rome forbidding th...
Was consenting (hn suneudokwn). Periphrastic imperfect of suneudokew, a late double compound (sun, eu, dokew) that well describes Saul's pleasure in ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 140\\ \\\\. This psalm, A ben Ezra says, was composed by David before he was king; and Kimchi says, it is concerning Doeg an...
Sending (aposteilante). First aorist active participle of apostellw, coincident action with epoihsan (did). To the elders (pro tou presbuterou). The ...
That would live godly (oi qelonte zhn eusebw). Those who desire (will, determine) to live godly. Paul does not regard his experience as peculiar, but...
Affliction See Persecution; Suffering Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Edited by Walter A. ElwellCopyright ? 1996 by Walter A. Elw...
1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake They were so in the esteem of men, for their close attach merit to a crucified Christ; and for preac...