For you have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Observe how he shrinks not from aggravating each point; not saying simply that he persecuted but beyond measure, and not only persecuted but made havoc of it, which signifies an attempt to extinguish, to pull down, to destroy, to annihilate, the Church.
