...this example before their eyes, they could no! be without a full sense of the peril of their fumre enterprise. 2. Secondly, all the histories agree in...sake."* " When affliction or persecution ariseth for the word'i sake, immediately they are offended. "t " They shall lay hands on you, and persecute you, delivering...

...by our Saviour, in the ninth and the four following verses, relates to the disciples themselves: " Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and...shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." The parallel passages in St. Luke and St. Mark are still stronger, and more particular. St. Mark says,...

...nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. All these are the beginning of sorrow. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and...shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake§. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world...

...famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning: of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you : and ye shall be hated of alLnations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be The signt preceding offended, and shall betray...

...persecuted me, they will also persecute you, was the warning of common sense. With this example before their eyes, they could not be without a full sense of the peril ot their future enterprise. 2. Secondly, all the histories agree m representing Christ as foretelling...

...example, the disciples could not have been without a full sense of the peril of their enterprise. Q. Do the histories agree in representing Christ as foretelling the persecution of his followers ? A. Yes. Numerous quotations from each of the Evangelists prove it.* Q. What are we entitled to argue...

...persecuted me, they will also persecute you, was the warning of common sense. With this example before their eyes, they could. not be without a full sense...ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake 1 ." "When affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended 5 ."...

...warning : " Marvel not if the world hate you : I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : — then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and...ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake !" And it should be particularly observed, that it was in the face of this dreadful calamity so soon...

...country, and in his own house, ver. 57. And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me, ii. 6. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and...shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another, xxiv. 9,...

...famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and...shall be hated of all nations, for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many...