Romans 8:36

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As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

As it is written, "Because for Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him that loved us."

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Hippolytus of Rome

AD 235

And the phrase, "She hath killed her beasts "denotes the prophets and martyrs who in every city and country are slain like sheep every day by the unbelieving, in behalf of the truth, and cry aloud, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long, we were counted as sheep for the slaughter."

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

Here the expression “all the day long” means all the time in which we suffer persecution and are killed as sheep. .

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

And the time thus referred to is not called "a year "only, but is also named "a day "both by the prophet and by Paul, of whom the apostle, calling to mind the Scripture, says in the Epistle addressed to the Romans, "As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.". "For we have been counted "says the Apostle Paul, "all the day long as sheep for the slaughter; "

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

It is possible in one day to die not once or twice but many times. For someone who is always prepared for this will continually receive a full reward. This is what the psalmist hints at when he says “all the day long.”

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