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  • The "Persecutor" is unaware of his/her power and uses the power negatively, often destructively.

    KI Media Socheata 2010

  • For this we have to look at he who was there at the Earthquake of Arabia written of in the Acts of the Apostle's as whenSaul the Persecutor of the Believerswho became Paul the Defender of the Believers; that Great Earthquake felt on the Road to Sham he fell off hismount; and his companions scattered; as on the Road toDamascus in Syria; that is written of in the New Testament.

    OpEdNews - Diary: The Revealing of the Beast of the Earth: Dabbat al-Ard 2009

  • And the main villain in that book is "The Persecutor" - a thinly veiled parody of the erstwhile Mr Castle.

    THE PUNISHER KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE Marvel Comics David Campbell 2006

  • _Archbishop Williams 'Persecutor, R.K. _ -- Any information will be thankfully received of the ancestors, collaterals, or descendants, of the notorious R.K. -- the unprincipled persecutor of Archbp. Williams, mentioned in Fuller's _Church Hist.

    Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 Various

  • The Third French Republic as a Persecutor of the Church, ibid.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Tree of Life, Lord of all the Emperours of the World from the East even to the West, Grand Persecutor of the Christians and of all the wicked, the Joy of the flourishing Tree '... and so forth and so on.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • He early became the foremost Persecutor and Vice-Crusader of the new world.

    The Man in Gray Thomas Dixon 1905

  • First, it made him high by glorifcation, whereof S. Austin saith: Persecutor, thou wert wood against the martyr and more than wood, for when thou assembledst pain thou increasedst his glory, thine engine found not glory of the aid when the instruments of the torments transported him in the honour of victory.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

  • Persecutor of the Israelites may be distinguished as the

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • But an indignant world must in justice inscribe upon his tomb, "Tyrant and Persecutor."

    The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power 1841

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