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Divine Blessings: Reviled and Persecuted:

Quotations

'O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me' (Psalm 7, 1).

'Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings' (Isaiah 51, 7).

'Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you' (Matthew 5, 44).

'The chief priests mocking said ... He saved others; Himself He cannot save' (Mark 15, 31)

'Affliction denotes temptations, both external and internal, the external being persecutions from the world, and the internal being persecutions from the devil' (Swedenborg A.C. 1846).


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