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On Flight during Persecution.
1. My brother Fabius, you very lately asked, because some news or other were communicated, whether or not we ought to flee in persecution. For my pa
2. If, because injustice is not from God, but from the devil, and persecution consists of injustice (for what more unjust than that the bishops of th
3. Seeing therefore, too, these cases occur in persecutions more than at other times, as there is then among us more of proving or rejecting, more of
4. Well, then, if it is evident from whom persecution proceeds, we are able at once to satisfy your doubts, and to decide from these introductory rem
5. But, says some one, I flee, the thing it belongs to me to do, that I may not perish, if I deny it is for Him on His part, if He chooses, to bring
6. Nay, says some one, he fulfilled the command, when he fled from city to city. For so a certain individual, but a fugitive likewise, has chosen to
7. Let us now see whether also the rest of our Lord’s ordinances accord with a lasting command of flight. In the first place, indeed, if persecution
8. He sometimes also fled from violence Himself, but for the same reason as had led Him to command the apostles to do so: that is, He wanted to fulf
9. The teaching of the apostles was surely in everything according to the mind of God: they forgot and omitted nothing of the Gospel. Where, then,
10. But some, paying no attention to the exhortations of God, are readier to apply to themselves that Greek versicle of worldly wisdom, “He who fled
11. Thus ought every servant of God to feel and act, even one in an inferior place, that he may come to have a more important one, if he has made som
12. So far, my brother, as the question proposed by you is concerned, you have our opinion in answer and encouragement. But he who inquires whether
13. But also to every one who asks me I will give on the plea of charity, not under any intimidation. Who asks? He says. But he who uses intimidati
14. But how shall we assemble together? say you how shall we observe the ordinances of the Lord? To be sure, just as the apostles also did, who wer
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