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14:19-20: Jews stone Paul nearly to death. 16:16-24: Paul and Silas are flogged and imprisoned by gentiles in Philippi. 17:1-15: Paul and others are chased out of successive towns by Jews. 18:12-17: Paul is made to appear before the Roman proconsul Gallop in Achaia, who dismisses the case as an internal dispute.
These ten persecutions Augustine compared with the 10 Plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus. [note 1] [65] Augustine did not see these early persecutions in the same light as that of fourth century heretics. In Augustine's view, when the purpose of persecution is to "lovingly correct and instruct", then it becomes discipline and is just.
A. N. Sherwin-White records that serious discussion of the reasons for Roman persecution of Christians began in 1890 when it produced "20 years of controversy" and three main opinions: first, there was the theory held by most French and Belgian scholars that "there was a general enactment, precisely formulated and valid for the whole empire, which forbade the practice of the Christian religion.
Martyr narratives flourished later as a genre of Christian literature, but are not contemporary with the persecutions and are often of dubious historicity. This article lists both historical and legendary figures traditionally identified as martyrs during the reign of Diocletian.
His persecutions were not followed up for another six years, allowing some Church functions to resume. [37] Valerian , Decius's friend, took up the imperial mantle in 253. Though he was at first thought of as "exceptionally friendly" towards the Christians, [ 38 ] his actions soon showed otherwise.
The persecutions in Persia caused refugees to escape as far as Arabia, India, and other Central Asian countries. Christianity penetrated Arabia from numerous points on its periphery. Northeastern Arabia flourished from the end of the 3rd to the end of the 6th and was apparently evangelized by Christians from the Tigris-Euphrates Valley in the ...
List of Christians martyred during the reign of Diocletian; Gothic persecution of Christians; Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians; Persecution of Oriental Orthodox Christians. Persecution of Copts; Persecution of Christians in the modern era. Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany; Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi ...
Paul's Jewish name was "Saul" (Hebrew: שָׁאוּל, Modern: Sha'ûl, Tiberian: Šā'ûl), perhaps after the biblical King Saul, the first king of Israel and, like Paul, a member of the Tribe of Benjamin; the Latin name Paulus, meaning small, was not a result of his conversion as is commonly believed but a second name for use in communicating ...