“But true martyrs are such as those of whom the Lord says, "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake." It is not, therefore, those who suffer persecution for their unrighteousness and for the divisions which they impiously introduce into Christian unity, but those who suffer for righteousness' sake,…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS 2.9
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1And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
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— 1 Samuel 19:1 —
2But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
3And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.