Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
But why, he says, should I speak only of myself? Each one that will live godly will be persecuted. Here he calls afflictions and sorrows, persecutions, for it is not possible that a man pursuing the course of virtue should not be exposed to grief, tribulation, and temptations. For how can he escape it who is treading in the strait and narrow way, and who has heard, that in the world you shall have tribulation? John 16:33 If Job in his time said, The life of man upon earth is a state of trial Job 7:1, Septuagint; how much more was it so in those days?
