persecutors

Chief among the persecutors is Andrei Zhdanov, considered by some to be Stalin’s probable successor.

As I Please 1947

'When the persecution had endured seven years, Attar Singh took leave to Pishapur once again (that was the fourth time in that year only) and he called his persecutors together before the village elders, and he cast his turban at their feet and besought them by his mother's blood to cease from their persecutions.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

The malice of persecutors is impotent even when it is most impetuous, and, when Satan fills their hearts, yet God ties their hands.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Note, That which we should earnestly desire and beg of God for our enemies and persecutors is that God would bring them to repentance, and we should desire their abasement in order to this, no other confusion to them than what may be a step towards their conversion.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

The Messiah came to rescue the children of men out of the hands of Satan the great oppressor, and, all judgment being committed to him, the executing of judgment upon persecutors is so among the rest, Jude 15. 4.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

As the measure of the sin of persecutors is filling up, so is the number of the persecuted martyred servants of

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

If things couldn't get any worse, Daniel later finds two Jews about to bury his late mother in a nameless grave (72-74), which inspires him to swear that "henceforward her persecutors were his enemies" (74).

Religion 2009

Foremost among his persecutors was the Archbishop of Treves, and with him Sigebert dealt in summary fashion, depriving him of his archbishopric and offering the see to

Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Lewis Spence 1914

On every occasion, at every turn of his life, on his first return to Jerusalem, when preaching the Gospel in Asia and Greece, in the great struggle between Jewish and Gentile Christians — his persecutors were the Jews, his great enemy the law.

The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894

The proud bishops who disdained him, the haughty judges who condemned him, are now chiefly known as his persecutors, while he continues to be more honored and extolled with every succeeding generation.

A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852