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...man emperor, considered treasonous and punishable by execution. There were persecutions under Nero, Domitian, Trajan and the other Antonines, Maximinus Thrax, Deci

...of people throughout history, with the greatest and most terrible of these persecutions occurring under the Nazi rule

...Emperor was considered treasonous and punishable by execution. There were persecutions under Nero, Domitian, Trajan and the other Antonines, Maximinus Thrax, Deci

...man emperor, considered treasonous and punishable by execution. There were persecutions under Nero, Domitian, Trajan and the other Antonines, Maximinus Thrax, Deci

...le integrity of the apostles and others in the early church in the face of persecutions and even the threat of death. As far back as the book of [[Genesis]] one ma

...seen in the [[Book of Acts]]. Acts was written by Luke and it tells of the persecutions, the work of Peter and Paul, and provides us with a great historical contex

# It is completely possible that Peter could have been speaking of smaller persecutions in the area he was sending his epistle. Alternatively he might have been re

...isfortunes and hindrances which have befallen us" (1:1) for a reference to persecutions under Domitian. Confirmation of the date comes from the fact that the churc

...referred to. Dodwell found internal evidence, in the reference to existing persecutions and a supposed reference to [[Origen]] and his followers, for assigning the

...rs will be translated into immortal bodies in the Rapture before the great persecutions by the Antichrist as he comes into his Beast role midway through the final

...he destruction of the throne. The undisguised Romish tendencies and bitter persecutions of Archbishop Laud, and his fellow-workers, were doing the same for the Chu

...s it meant for the time when they had to endure from the unbelieving world persecutions severe and oft; as James indicates at the outset, where he says (verses 2-4