“If to flee, how to suffer? If to suffer, how to flee? In fact, what utter inconsistency in the decrees of One who commands to flee, and yet urges to suffer, which is the very opposite! "Him who will confess Me, I also will confess before My Father." How will he confess, fleeing? How flee, confessing? "Of him who shall…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — On Flight in Persecution
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32Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
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30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
— Matthew 10:32 —
33But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
34Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.